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At least 17 people were killed, including 10 guards, during an attack against the Ciudad Juarez prison on Sunday, which resulted in the escape of Los Mexicles gang leadership and at least 25 other gang members. Mexican officials reported that at around 0700 local time, gunmen in armored vehicles assaulted the prison. Two guards at the entrance were fired on...

At least 18 people were killed, including a city mayor, following a gunman attack on a city hall meeting in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, Mexico. According to authorities, gunmen stormed the city hall on Wednesday during a meeting, killing mayor Conrado Mendoza, his father and former mayor Juan Mendoza, as well as other high ranking local officials. A child was...

Last Tuesday, Mexican federal authorities and National Guard forces carried out a raid against cartel members of La Familia Michoacana (LFM) in the municipality of Texcaltitlan, Mexico. According to Mexican media, 11 cartel members were killed and another 10 were detained. The raid in and of itself was nothing out of the ordinary as LFM cells partake in drug...

Mexico won't be taking part in the international pile-on to sanction Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said, he seeks to keep his country on peaceful terms with all nations, RT reported. "We are not going to take any sort of economic retaliation because we want to maintain good relations with all the governments of the world," Lopez...

At least 54 people are dead and over 100 others were left wounded after a tractor trailer smuggling Central American migrants overturned and crashed into the base of a bridge in #Chiapas, #Mexico. The truck was said to have been speeding at the time of the crash, which ripped open the trailer and threw bodies across the scene. The driver is...