Articles tagged "narco wars"

Drug violence protesters in Mexico City turned this fountain blood-red after a four-day march from Cuernavaca.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Cuernavaca, Fotoposts, Javier sicilia, Mexico city, Narco wars, Protests

Feds found their eight tunnel between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora since October of 2010.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Drug trafficking, Drug tunnels, Drugs, Narco wars, Nogales, Nogales drug tunnel

Oh the paradox: would you move to a notoriously dangerous city to be safer?

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Drugs, L.a. times, Mexico city, Narco, Narco wars, Violance

Real estate blogger Candy Evans talks to the hottest, new developer in Dallas about how he and his wealthy Mexican contemporaries are creating a boom in Texas real estate.

• By: Candy Evans

Tags: Dallas, Leobardo treviño, Mexican drug wars, Narco wars, Real estate developers, Texas real estate

Narcos and the Mexican government use public relations tools like banners, leaflets and press releases to cast themselves in a positive light relative to their enemies.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Carteles unidos, Drug war marketing, Drug wars, Felipe calderon, Gulf cartel, Los zetas, Marketing, Narco banners, Narco marketing, Narco wars

Remember Marisol Valles who was named police chief of her small northern Mexican town last fall? She got fired for not showing up to work Monday.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Chihuahua, Cops, Marisol valles, Narco wars, Praxedis g. guerrero

Felipe Calderon is in Washington D.C. today to talk to Barack Obama about the shitstorm that is U.S.-Mexico relations.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Barack obama, Cerveza summit, Felipe calderon, Narco wars, Tecate

The bodies of three family members of slain Juarez Femicide activist Josefina Reyes were found in Mexico this week.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Ciudad juarez, Josefina reyes, Josefina reyes salazar, Juarez activist family murdered, Juarez femicide, Juarez women murders, Narco wars, Reyes family murdered

Jaime Zapata, a U.S. ICE agent from Laredo assigned to an office in Mexico City, has been shot and killed in the northern state of San Luis Potosi while driving to Monterrey on official business.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Ice, Jamie zapata, Los zetas, Narco wars, San luis potosi, Us agent killed mexico, Victor avila

Winners of the 2011 World Press Photo contest, which is open to all professional press photographers, were announced today and in third place was Mexico's Fernando Brito whose photo story entitled "El Debate de Culiacán" offers a stark look at Mexico's narco wars.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: El debate de culiacan, Fernando brito, Narco wars, World press photo, World press photo contest 2011