Sinaloa, Mexico News

Despite the violence constantly making headlines across the border, what's often overlooked in the news is the -positive- in Mexico.

In this Stratfor article Scott Stewart discusses the upcoming Mexican Presidential election which is happening against the backdrop of the Mexican government's war against the drug cartels.

The State Department advised Americans this week to defer "non-essential travel" to vast stretches of Mexico, warning that 14 of the country's 31 states are so dangerous that visitors should avoid them if at all possible.

A Mexican tourism delegation took the unusual step of bringing the Sinaloa attorney general investigating a brutal assault on a Calgary woman with them to Canada to reinforce the message his Pacific coast state is safe.

A soldier stands in a room full of barrels containing white and yellow powder Thursday after the seizure of a small ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Cyndy Vanier, a Canadian under arrest in Mexico, faces accusations she led a plot to smuggle members of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's family into Mexico.

The drought in northern Mexico is so bad that it has hurt even illicit drug growers and their normally well-tended crops of marijuana and opium poppies, a Mexican army commander said Monday.

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- The Mexican navy says a suspected member of the Zetas drug gang has led authorities to a mass grave site at two ranches in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

A drug gang unfurled banners in a Mexican city that Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit next month, telling rival traffickers to keep out and keep the peace during the papal visit.

REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed enforcer for the country's most powerful drug cartel -- a man also alleged to have amassed weapons from the U.S. government's failed Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation .

Twenty seven years ago, the kidnap, torture and murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent by Mexican drug traffickers sparked one of the biggest manhunts the US government has ever launched in North America.

Jury selection is set to begin today in the federal trial of two alleged hit men from one of the largest drug-trafficking rings in Memphis' history, with ties to a deadly Mexican cartel.

Oro Mining Ltd. announces the results of the sonic drilling campaign conducted in 2011.

A man believed to be the mastermind in the massacre of 17 people at a drug rehabilitation center in Juarez in 2009 was arrested by Mexican Federal Police on Friday, officials said.

ALBUQUERQUE - The multimillion dollar drug and money-laundering ring busted in Albuquerque last week had definite ties to a deadly Mexican drug cartel, federal agents confirmed Friday.

I won't lie: I had some qualms about travelling alone to the Copper Canyon, a series of awe-inspiring gorges bigger than the Grand Canyon that happen to be in the same northwestern region of Mexico consumed by drug-trafficking violence.

Police officers in Mexico's most violent city have been forced to live in guarded hotels after targeted attacks last month killed at least eight officers and wounded three.

The case of a Canadian woman assaulted in a Mazatlan hotel last month refuses to die down, with the plot thickening on a seemingly daily basis.

Amid reports some Mexican tomatoes destined for U.S. markets are being returned to shippers because of glutted markets, Nogales, Ariz.-based grower-shippers who have found homes for all of their Mexican-grown fruit are counting themselves lucky.

A soldier stands guard among marijuana plants at an illegal plantation found during a military operation on Friday at the Culiacan mountains, northern Mexico, Monday, Jan.