MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday that a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three relatives had plotted to sneak into Mexico under false names and take clandestine refuge at a posh Pacific coast resort. The elaborate plan to bring al-Saadi Gadhafi to Mexico allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and […]

Undercover US agents have laundered and smuggled millions of dollars in drug money for Mexican drug cartels in an efforts to learn how these criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and root out their leaders, the New York Times reports. See also: Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of Force […]

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican official said Friday that officials have lost contact with a helicopter carrying Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora, the highest ranking official in the country after the president.

MEXICO CITY– Police found a woman’s decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site. Drug Gangs Accused Of Killing U.S. Consulate Employees In Mexico America’s Recession Proof Drug Economy Fuels Mexican Violence The gruesome killing may […]

CHETUMAL, Mexico — Police say a woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law-husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit. A spokesman for police in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo says staff at the prison in Chetumal noticed that the woman seemed nervous and was pulling a black, […]

MEXICO — Mexican authorities said they detained more than 500 illegal immigrants from Central America and Asia who were crammed inside two tractor-trailers heading toward the United States. CNN reports: X-ray equipment detected the immigrants at checkpoints in the southern state of Chiapas, the state attorney general’s office said. The drivers of both trucks sped […]

MEXICO-A  Univiosn skit that aired on Mexican television a year and half ago has gone viral due to its racist content. In the skit an African foreign exchange student is mocked as a monkey, told he was a shadow, that his mother used shoe shine grease on his skin and has his lips and mouth […]

The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug cartel gunmen.

WASHINGTON – Determined to show a commitment to stopping the flow of illegal immigrants, the Senate convened a special session Thursday and passed a $600 million bill to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border. The voice vote in the nearly empty Senate chamber sends the legislation to President Barack Obama, who planned […]

A Mexican baby that had been pronounced dead was discovered to be still breathing -- just hours before she was scheduled to be buried.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, an administration official and an Arizona congresswoman said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.

Our friends at the White House Flickr posted all-new, behind-the-scenes photos from the State Dinner. Check out the decor, the dinner discussions and the president’s dancing face.