Topic: Michoacan
AP News | 2010-03-06 03:16:51
Attackers stake out highway, open fire on Mexican federal police convoy, killing 2, wounding 3
Heavily armed gunmen ambushed a convoy of federal police on a highway in one of Mexico's drug battleground states Friday night, killing two officers and wounding three, officials said. The unknown attackers hid on both sides of the road near the port city of ...
AP News | 2010-03-04 07:02:38
Release of jailed mayors is setback for Mexico's efforts to prove nobody is immune in drug war
Antonio Gonzalez insists he has no idea why he was among 12 Mexican mayors arrested last year in an unprecedented roundup of elected officials accused of protecting drug traffickers. During his eight months in jail, he says, investigators told him only that ...
AP News | 2010-02-06 05:48:04
<div id="subtitle">At least 29 dead, thousands of homes flooded in central Mexico from rare winter rain storms</div><div><p>A landslide killed at least 11 people in central Mexico on Friday, adding to 18 deaths this week from severe and unseasonable winter storms that closed schools and freeways and ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-04 18:54:52
<div><p>URUAPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - This sunkissed corner of western Mexico is the source of an annual bounty of guacamole dip for U.S. Super Bowl fans, but extortion and kidnapping by drug gangs has cast a grim shadow over its avocado farmers.</p><p>The drug lords of Michoacan state have ...
