AOL News is joining forces with The Huffington Post to bring you the best original reporting, insight and opinion on the web. Join HuffPost Social News using your AOL account!

Mexico News

Mexico News From AOL News

Body Parts Found in Upscale Mexico City District

Apr 24th 2011 – 6:54PM

MEXICO CITY - The dismembered body of a woman was found scattered in a leafy, upscale Mexico City district, while authorities investigated possible drug gang links in the deaths of five females whose throats were slashed in Acapulco. The mass slaying of women is unusual in Mexico's drug war, and there was no indication...

Expert: Mexican Drug Cartels Infesting US, Even Our National Parks

By Dana KennedyApr 22nd 2011 – 10:23AM
Francisco Vega, AFP / Getty Images

Francisco Vega, AFP / Getty Images

Lost in the rhetoric about illegal immigration are new reports that Mexican drug cartels have moved into the United States, gaining a major foothold here that may be the start of a permanent expansion onto this side of the border. They're even growing marijuana in our national parks, one expert says. Mexico's cartel...

Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145

By Mara GayApr 15th 2011 – 12:20PM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

Federal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday...

Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits

Apr 13th 2011 – 10:13PM

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said...

Mexican Convicted of Murdering Border Patrol Agent

Apr 13th 2011 – 3:54AM

SAN DIEGO - Jesus Navarro eluded U.S. authorities even before he became the prime suspect in the 2008 killing of a Border Patrol agent. Their long efforts to get the Mexican man convicted in a U.S. court paid off Tuesday when a federal jury deliberated only two hours to find him guilty of murdering Border Patrol Agent...

Mexico News From the Web

Background on Mexico

Mexico (; , ), officially the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America.

more at wikipedia »