DALLAS, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Mexican drug gang violence will likely worsen in 2009 as President Felipe Calderon intensifies his war on cartels, U.S. officials warn.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Ten major drug defendants were extradited from Mexico to the United States Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department said.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has provided Mexico nearly half of a $400 million aid package for its southern neighbor's ongoing battle against drug traffickers.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Journalists are increasingly among the casualties of the drug cartel wars in Mexico, with 28 killed and eight missing since 2000, a reporters' group says.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Mexico's former top anti-drug official has been accused of accepting nearly half a million dollars in bribes from drug cartel leaders.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Mexico's top law officer working with Interpol was arrested Tuesday in an investigation into alleged ties to Mexican officials and drug trafficking.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The deadly drug gang turf wars that have claimed 4,000 lives so far this year in Mexico have spread to cities across the United States, officials say.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- It could be years before U.S. officials get a chance to try reputed Mexican drug lord Eduardo Arellano Felix for breaking American laws, officials say.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Mexico says it is cleaning house in its attorney general's office after five anti-drug officials were arrested for secretly working with drug cartels.
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Improved cross-border cooperation in drug wars topped discussions between U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterpart in Mexico.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Police in the Mexican state of Baja California report a weekend series of killings as a result of the continuing turf war between drug cartels.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Five more bodies were found in Tijuana, Mexico, last weekend, adding to the growing death toll from a drug gang war raging in the border city, officials said.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- More than a third of residents have thought about leaving Mexico because of the drug cartels, a survey released Monday indicates.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Federal agents have arrested 175 people in the United States and Italy in a crackdown on a Mexican drug cartel, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Two top Venezuelan officials and a former official have helped the Colombian FARC in drug dealing, the U.S. Treasury Department said Friday.
