(CNN) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned Friday the torching of a Monterrey casino that killed at least 52 people as "the most serious attack on civil society that the country has seen in a long time." Calderon said the burning of the Monterrey Casino Royale on Thursday was perpetrated by "terrorists" motivated by greed. Meanwhile, authorities in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, of which Monterrey is the capital, released a video showing how armed men...

CULIACAN, Mexico - Mexican authorities say the body of an online newspaper journalist has been found a day after he was kidnapped. Sinaloa state assistant prosecutor Martin Robles says the body of 53-year-old Humberto Millan Salazar was found in a farm building outside the city of Culiacan with a gunshot wound in the face. Culiacan is the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, where some of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs operate. Millan Salazar was the director of the online...

Federal officials said Thursday they've taken down a drug and weapons trafficking ring involving members of San Diego's Iraqi community and a major Mexican drug cartel that was caught selling large amounts of drugs, guns and grenades. Police in El Cajon said more than 60 suspects linked to the Chaldean Organized Crime Syndicate were arrested. Smugglers were shipping drugs from El Cajon to Iraqis in Detroit, where the Chaldean syndicate is based, authorities said. El Cajon and federal police...

Proposiciones de Ciudadanos Legisladores Del Grupo Parlamentario del Partido de la Revolución Democrática, la que contiene punto de acuerdo relativo a la posición de México en torno a la creación del Estado Palestino. PROPOSICIÓN CON PUNTO DE ACUERDO RELATIVO A LA POSICIÓN DE MÉXICO EN TORNO A LA CREACIÓN DEL ESTADO PALESTINO. C. PRESIDENTE DE LA MESA DIRECTIVA H. COMISIÓN PERMANENTE PRESENTE Los suscritos, integrantes...

Mexico City authorities are reporting a package bomb exploded at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, State of Mexico campus injuring two. The package was addressed to robotics professor Alejandro Aceves Lopez and delivered to him via a local messenger service. When Lopez opened the package, it exploded, injuring him and another professor. The bomb appeared to be homemade and is said to be the first explosion of this kind to occur on a Mexican university campus. All classes were cancelled...

The body of Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a Mexican journalist, was found yesterday in the Boca del Rio municipality neighboring the Veracruz port, as reported by The LA Times. Some reports claim she was beheaded while others state that her throat was slit. Ordaz covered crime and police stories for the daily newspaper Notiver in Veracruz, which is a critical drug-and-human-trafficking route along the Gulf of Mexico. A similar incident occurred in late June involving a Notiver co-worker....

CULIACÁN, SINALOA - The 25-year-old son of the editor of a newspaper in the western Mexican city of Culiacan was murdered, sources in the Sinaloa state Attorney General’s Office told Efe on Thursday. Fermin Rosas Quezada was found dead inside his car Wednesday night. Sinaloa state police made the discovery after residents of a neighborhood in the southwestern part of Culiacan alerted authorities to the presence of a vehicle with its engine running. The victim was shot at...

MEXICO CITY In a decision hailed by human rights advocates, the Mexican Supreme Court Tuesday ordered military officers and personnel be tried in civilian courts, not military tribunals, when accused of torture, extra-judicial killing and other abuses. The court's unanimous ruling marks a radical change in the way human rights cases involving the military should be prosecuted. As the number of alleged violations has soared in the recent years of the Mexican drug war, advocates have...

A ruling on July 6, 2011, by Mexico's Supreme Court should bring reform of Mexico's flawed military justice system and accountability for soldiers accused of human rights violations closer, Human Rights Watch said today. The court ruled that Mexico's courts are obligated to comply with an Inter-American Court judgment in an enforced disappearance case and that its jurisprudence should be taken into account by Mexico's judges. In a binding November 2009 judgment, Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico, the...

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