Sinaloa, Mexico News

In 1989, the portrait of the U.S. rice industry and that of the Mexican rice industry was very different from what it is today.

A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday.

Portland real estate developer Thorndike "Dike" Dame is recovering in a Portland hospital after he was shot by robbers while fishing on a remote Mexican lake.

Two Mexican men made Forbes' list of the most powerful men and women, one for his philanthropy, the other for his drug-trafficking, the magazine said.

The bodies of four alleged gangsters, stuffed into a parked car near President Felipe Calderon's compound in this capital city, carried a message of divine retribution: "The wicked are denied their light, and the upraised arm is broken," proclaimed the biblical passage, Job 38:15. Scrawled with a marker on the backs of three of the bodies, a single ...

On Friday evening, 7-year-old Raul Ramirez Ramirez was shot to death in the street along with his father.

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman Loera are among the most powerful people in the world, according to Forbes magazine.

Mexico decried Forbes magazine's decision to name the country's most-wanted drug lord to its "World's Most Powerful People," calling it an insult to the government's bloody struggle against drug cartels.

Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico - to its list of the 67 "World's Most Powerful People" on Wednesday.

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four, authorities said Tuesday.

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico's drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor.

Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin.

Mexican vocal duo Miguel y Miguel was among the first conjunto bands to emerge from the Angostura, Sinaloa area, a region typically renowned for its rich Norteno and Banda musical traditions.

LONDON, ENGLAND, November 05, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Russell Bedford Mexico has continued its expansion with the addition of a new firm to represent the national network in Culiacan, Sinaloa.

Tejano singer Graciela Beltran is widely known as one of regional Mexican music's most influential female voices.

A Mexican citizen accused of being the leader of a drug trafficking organization has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison, authorities said.

Reporting from Mexico City - Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico's superstar norteno band, abruptly canceled its participation Wednesday in a major awards show after it was barred from performing a song critical of the government's campaign against drug cartels.

The leader of a Mexican farmworkers' organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora, an official said Saturday.

Amidst growing concerns of global food shortages, scientists continue to push the frontiers of genetically modified foods in an attempt to head off the looming crisis.

In what authorities are calling the largest single operation in the United States against a Mexican drug cartel, the Justice Department announced Thursday it has struck a major blow against a violent gang with quasi-religious and Robin Hood overtones.