Gunmen killed six people at a bar Saturday in the northern state of Sinaloa, a drug-violence hotspot, state prosecutors said. At least three gunmen walked into Las Herraduras bar in the resort city of Mazatlan early Saturday and opened fire, killing a customer and two ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that jobs and reducing poverty will be his top two priorities in 2010, while the fight against drug cartels that dominated the first half of his presidency placed third. In a televised speech, the conservative president promised historic levels of investment in ...

Four suspected members of a cartel-aligned hit squad have been arrested in the slaying of the family of a Mexican marine hailed as a hero for dying in a raid that killed a top drug lord. Tabasco state Attorney General Rafael Gonzalez said gunmen from the Zeta gang killed the mother, two siblings and an aunt of marine Melquisedet Angulo ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Dec. 21 The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle on the indoctrination by the book: If you lie down with dogs, you rise with fleas, the old proverb goes. President Obama must be itching like crazy over his ...