Chihuahua, Mexico News Archives

During a visit to San Diego in April, Pratik and Priti Chavda thought they'd slip over the border into Tijuana just to do a little shopping, have a quick meal and say they had made it to Mexico.

Lawyer disputes Mexican officials' arrest. Friday, October 23, 2009 EL PASO Mexican official's arrest disputed Supporters of a Mexican human rights investigator whom immigration authorities detained for nearly a week as an asylum seeker - even though he never asked for U.S. protection - are calling for a congressional probe into his arrest.

The Office of the Sixth Judicial District Attorney has filed petitions in Children's Division of the Sixth Judicial District Court against two 17-year-old Mexican boys.

Chihuahua human-rights investigator Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson feels betrayed and disappointed.

Supporters of a Mexican human rights investigator recently released from federal immigration custody want Congress to look into what led to his arrest on the Texas border.

The Chihuahua state human-rights investigator who was taken into custody last week by Customs and Border Protection agents, who apparently wanted him to seek political asylum for his safety, was released Wednesday afternoon.

A violent and ongoing battle between two powerful drug cartels has pushed this northern border city's murder rate - already one of the highest in the world - to new records in 2009, the Mexican Justice Department reported Wednesday.

A lawyer for a Mexican human rights official says he's been detained by U.S. immigration authorities as an asylum-seeker - even though he doesn't want American protection.Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson is the rights official for Chihuahua state.

An attorney for a Mexican human rights official jailed by immigration officials says his client doesn't want asylum in the U.S. and wasn't seeking it when he crossed the border last week.

A Mexican human rights official is in U.S. customs detention, apparently for his own safety, after he reported 170 instances of Mexican soldiers allegedly torturing, abusing and killing innocent people in Chihuahua.

A former Chihuahua state official offered to expose high-level corruption in an open letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

Mexican officials on Wednesday identified the woman whose decapitated body was discovered Sunday at a street corner in Juarez as Claudia Garcia Martinez, 38.

The decapitated body of a woman left in a public place in Juarez marks a disturbing development in the violence-ravaged city across the border from El Paso, two experts said.

The Mexican army over the weekend released more details into a shooting that killed one soldier and wounded another near the community of LeBaron in northwestern Chihuahua.

The slaying this week of Palomas Mayor Estanislao "Tani" Garcia has become something of mystery in this border community known in history books as the place where Pancho Villa attacked during the Mexican Revolution.

Unidentified assailants kidnapped and killed the top official of the border town of Palomas, across from New Mexico, on Thursday.

Gammon Gold Inc. plans a US$100-million bought-deal financing to raise money to fund debt repayment, expanded operations explorations, and general corporate expenses.

A Mexican human-rights investigator who has criticized the army's involvement in trying to control the violence in the state of Chihuahua charged on Tuesday that soldiers are behind some of the violence.

At least five people have been shot to death in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to state prosecutors.

Chihuahua, Mexico hopes to host the UCI Road World Championships in five year's time.

Mexico, Sep 28 During the last few hours Mexico registered 28 crimes allegedly linked to the organized crime, the authorities reported Monday.

By Bernd Debusmann When Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, ordered 2,500 troops and federal agents into border city Ciudad Juarez 17 months ago to tamp down drug violence, the monthly murder rate ran at an average of 66.