Tijuana, Mexico News

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview that crime gangs and drug cartels were "taking over Mexico" before he launched his offensive against them, and said the crackdown had achieved uneven results.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 6:03 p.m. TIJUANA a ' A Finnish woman found dead inside her home in Playas de Tijuana on Sunday was killed in a dispute with her live-in boyfriend, a U.S. citizen named Robert Alan Frascarelli, the Baja California Attorney Generala TMs Office reported Wednesday.

Two earthquakes have shaken the border area in Baja California - one 3.2-magnitude and the other 3.8-magnitude - but no injuries or damage have been reported.

A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers.

A proposed Mexican program at the U.S.-Mexico border designed to reduce smuggling of illegal items such as weapons, cash, and drugs from the U.S. into Mexico has created concern in the business community that the new inspection procedures will have an additional economic impact on already long border crossing wait times.

U.S. assistance to help Mexico fight drug traffickers will probably continue beyond the allotted three years of the Merida Initiative, with expanding cooperation but not joint law enforcement or military operations "on Mexican soil any time soon," a senior Obama administration official said.

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.

The United States has severely restricted access to a spot on the Mexican border where families and lovers divided by illegal immigration could unite briefly to hold hands or kiss through a fence.

Reporting from Tijuana - El Churrero -- the Churro Man -- sidesteps tamale carts, squeezes between bumpers and beggars, working 24 lanes of idling vehicles.

Four Mexican nationals remain hospitalized in San Diego after being rescued by a group of good Samaritans from an overturned boat off the coast of Tijuana on Friday.

SAN DIEGO a " Authorities say four Mexican nationals rescued from an overturned boat off the coast of Tijuana have been returned to their country and four others remain hospitalized in San Diego.The group of seven men and a pregnant woman were picked up by a Canadian sailing vessel Friday in Mexican waters and taken to Shelter Island.U.S. Customs ...

Mexican troops discovered a 122 yard long tunnel apparently aimed at crossing the U.S. border underground.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:13 p.m. Mexican military authorities in Tijuana Thursday night announced the seizure of more than $2.1 million in U.S. currency from a residence in the western Playas de Tijuana section of the city, along with a half-dozen weapons.

MORELIA, Mexico - One Mexican policeman was killed and four wounded Saturday in an attack by gunmen in a drug-plagued state in southern Mexico.

A 21-year-old San Diego college student kidnapped near the U.S.-Mexico border has been found bound and beaten inside a closet in Tijuana, authorities said.

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End of tunnel under construction was still 471 feet short of the U.S. border. TIJUANA a ' Mexican soldiers detained six suspects Saturday at the site of a tunnel near the U.S. border fence west of A.L. Rodriguez International Airport.

Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.

A case of rights abuses allegedly committed by the Mexican armed forces is coming up for a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , where it joins a long list of accusations against the army in this Latin American country.

Officials in Mexico's capital said Monday they had identified four bound bodies found in a sport utility vehicle over the weekend with hand-lettered messages identifying the dead men as kidnappers.