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Gunmen Kill 5 at Mexican Border Bar
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY - Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths. A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the victims died of bullet wounds, burns or smoke inhalation, Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said the bodies were charred by the fire started by the gasoline bombs at the Barritas bar late Friday Raymundo Ruiz, AP People watch as ...
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Resigns Over WikiLeaks Disclosures
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, resigned on Saturday night, becoming the first casualty of the WikiLeaks disclosures of communications between Washington and its diplomatic corps. Pascual had drawn the ire of President Felipe Calderon of Mexico after WikiLeaks made public documents in which Pascual was critical of Mexico's anti-drug efforts. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's statement on Pascual's resignation said, in part: For the past year and a half, Ambassador Pascual has been an architect and advocate for the U.S.-Mexico relationship, effectively advancing ...
US Ambassador to Mexico Quits Amid WikiLeaks Furor
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY --The U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigned Saturday amid furor over a leaked diplomatic cable in which he complained about inefficiency and infighting among Mexican security forces in the campaign against drug cartels. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Paris to meet with U.S. allies on Libya, said Carlos Pascual's decision to step down was "based upon his personal desire to ensure the strong relationship between our two countries and to avert issues" raised by President Felipe Calderon. Clinton didn't say specifically what she was referring to, but a furious ...
Clinton: US Ambassador to Mexico Has Resigned
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON --U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, who criticized his host government's handling of the drug problem in a cable divulged by the WikiLeaks website, has resigned, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday. President Felipe Calderon, who met earlier this month with Obama at the White House, had taken umbrage publicly in February over remarks Pascual made in a diplomatic cable about the Mexicans' handling of the anti-drug trafficking effort there. The diplomatic document was among tens of thousands disclosed by the WikiLeaks website. Franka Bruns, ...
Obama, Calderon Commit to Stopping Drug Violence
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Thursday to deepen their cooperation in combating drug violence and declared a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. During a joint news conference at the White House, Obama praised Calderon for his "extraordinary courage" in fighting the violent drug cartels that have been responsible for deaths on both sides of the border. Obama pledged to speed up U.S. aid to train and equip Mexican forces to help in those efforts, but he also ...
14 Killed in Mexico Bar Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- At least 14 people were killed in three separate attacks in bars in northern Mexico, authorities said Sunday. In Coahuila state, across the border from Texas, nine men died late Saturday when gunmen opened fire inside two bars in separate attacks, state prosecutors said in a statement. Eleven others were wounded. Assailants killed another five men late Saturday in a bar in the cartel-plagued border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. In other drug violence, police in the resort city of Acapulco found the bodies of four men ...
Mexican Official: 34,612 Drug-War Deaths in 4 Years
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- A total of 34,612 people have died in drug-related killings in Mexico in the four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an offensive against drug cartels, officials said Wednesday. The killings reached their highest level in 2010, jumping by almost 60 percent to 15,273 deaths from 9,616 the previous year. The rate of killings grew in the first half of 2010, but then stabilized and began to decline in the last quarter of the year, federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire said. Calderon said Wednesday that 2010 "has been a year of extreme violence." "We are ...
Mexican Lawmaker Denied Immunity in Drug Cartel Case
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Mexico's Congress has voted to strip a lawmaker of his immunity, allowing for the prosecution of a sitting congressman with alleged ties to the country's powerful drug cartels for the first time ever in the country. Lawmakers voted 382-2 to let federal prosecutors move forward with a criminal case against Julio Cesar Godoy, a representative from the state of Michoacan accused of laundering money for the notorious La Familia cartel. "It is our judgment that there is enough evidence to support the accusations by the attorney general's office," Cesar Augusto Santiago, who headed ...
Mexican Border City Hits 3,000 Dead in Drug War
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY (Dec. 14) -- This year's death toll in drug-related violence in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the hardest hit by Mexico's drug war, rose to 3,000 Tuesday after two men were shot dead on a street, authorities said. Ciudad Juarez has seen its homicide rate rise to one of the highest in the world after vicious turf battles broke out between gangs representing the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels in 2008. That year, 1,623 people were killed in drug-related violence, and the toll increased to 2,763 deaths in 2009. With prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval announcing the latest ...
Gunbattle Kills 11 in Western Mexican Town
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY (Dec. 11) -- A gunbattle between rival gangs killed 11 people during a Virgin of Guadalupe celebration in a western Mexican town, authorities said Saturday. Armed men arrived in three cars and opened fire on another group of gunmen in the main plaza of Tecalitlan just as a crowd was gathering Friday night, the Jalisco state attorney general's office said in a statement. One of the gunmen hurled a grenade. Eight men were killed at the scene and two others died at a hospital, the office said. Another man, the brother of one of those killed in the plaza, was found shot to death ...
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