The Irish Times

Mexico sues US gunmakers in unprecedented bid to stop weapons crossing border

Country seeking over €8.4 billion in damages in Massachusetts lawsuit

Thu Aug 05 2021 - 09:29

‘Worse than any horror film’: Inside a Los Zetas cartel ‘kitchen’

An estimated 60,000 disappeared in Mexico’s drug wars. Some were ‘cooked’ in ovens

Thu Apr 09 2020 - 20:18

Day of the Dead offers little solace for families of kidnapped students

Mexico’s communion with souls of deceased confounds relatives of Ayotzinapa missing

Fri Nov 08 2019 - 20:42

After ‘El Chapo’, Mexico faces a new phase in its neverending war on drugs

There are many challengers to the Sinaloa boss’s throne amid endemic corruption

Thu Feb 21 2019 - 01:00

Mexico to become third country to legalise marijuana

Government eyes tax revenues and cutting illegal supply chain, but will cartels suffer?

Sat Dec 29 2018 - 01:00

Mexico election: Lopez Obrador commits to Nafta after landslide win for left

64-year-old records widest winning margin in presidential election since 1980s

Mon Jul 02 2018 - 19:13

Working with drugs trade in bid to keep Mexico’s democracy alive

State attempts to fight drugs led to more violence so government has changed tack

Wed Jan 13 2016 - 01:00

Business continues as usual in Mexico’s brutal drug trade

Ham-fisted state interference has splintered cartels into more local, more violent entities

Sat Nov 22 2014 - 01:02

Robinson calls for Europe to push on emissions cuts

Council needs to build on the ‘big momentum’ created by events in New York

Mon Sept 29 2014 - 01:00

Mexico’s most wanted man Joaquin Guzman captured

Arrest of drugs kingpin hailed as majory victory in government’s brutal war on drugs

Sat Feb 22 2014 - 20:45

Mexico urges vigilantes to stand down in drugs gang conflict

Masked vigilantes took power in more than a dozen rural communities in 2013 across Michoacan state

Tue Jan 14 2014 - 16:39

Obama seeks to reassure Hollande amid bugging scandal

National Security Agency eavesdropped on millions of phone calls inside France

Tue Oct 22 2013 - 09:00

Mexico condemns alleged US hacking of Calderon email account

Such actions are unacceptable and violate international law, says government

Tue Oct 22 2013 - 01:00

Mexico berates US for hacking into former president’s email

New spying allegations against Washington emerge from Snowden document

Mon Oct 21 2013 - 07:30

Mexico frees 73 suspected kidnap victims near US border

Some had been held for up to four months while captors demanded payment from families

Tue Oct 01 2013 - 07:30

Leader of Mexican drug cartel arrested

Senior figure captured in military operation near US border with Texas

Sun Aug 18 2013 - 10:03

Mexico captures leader of brutal Zetas drug cartel

Miguel Angel Trevino Morales captured in northern Mexico, government says

Tue Jul 16 2013 - 06:36