Dozens of people were murdered in the last week in a new surge of Mexican drug attacks. Fourteen bodies were found in the state of San Luis Potosi, 17 in the port of Acapulco, and 12 in Mexico City itself, a locale relatively shielded from drug violence, reports the . The wave of deaths comes not too long before the six-year anniversary of the federal government's declaration of war on the cartels. The violence also comes about a week after President Calderon boasted to the National Security...

Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexican authorities accused four top military officials of connections with organized crime in a high-profile case that has renewed debate over the role of government troops in the drug war. A former deputy defense secretary was among the officials in a maximum-security prison in central Mexico Wednesday, a day after prosecutors accused them of having cartel ties. One of Mexico's most notorious accused drug lords, Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal, was also...

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - The offices of a major Mexican newspaper came under attack Sunday for the third time this month. Several masked, armed men broke into a branch office of the El Norte newspaper near the northern city of Monterrey, poured out gasoline and ignited it. The newspaper's website said none of the 15 people working in the Sierra Madre office were injured. Firefighters in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia quickly extinguished the blaze. Monterrey-based El Norte is...

HSBC Holdings, accused in a Senate report this week of exposing the U.S. financial system to illegal funds from Saudi Arabian terrorists, Mexican drug cartels and rogue regimes in North Korea and Cuba, will send a lineup of executives Tuesday to face a Senate subcommittee and apologize. In a statement, Europe’s largest bank - which has a substantial presence in the U.S. - said it “will acknowledge that, in the past, we have sometimes failed to meet the standards that regulators...

The newspaper “El Norte” suffered two attacks today, one in the early hours of the morning at their office in the suburb Torremolinos, Monterrey, and the second in the afternoon in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. No one was injured in either attack, but there was significant property damage at both ocations. The early morning attack was confined to a single grenade lobbed into the building’s garden by a solitary man, according to witnesses. The attack this afternoon escalated...

Outrage and surprise greeted the 5 July arrest of the investigative journalist Sanjuana Martínez, who works for the newspaper La Jornada and is noted for her campaigns on behalf of abused women and children. The official reason given for her arrest, in Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, was that it was part of divorce proceedings between the journalist and her husband, the Spanish judge Carlos Castresana. Martínez was finally released on 7 July. Reached by Reporters Without...

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed at the growing controversy surrounding Mexico’s federal election on 1 July. Right up to the eve of election day, the campaign was marked by numerous attacks on journalists and also on observers, bloggers and campaigners for electoral transparency such as members of the #YoSoy132 collective. Much of the violence has been attributed to supporters of the three main candidates, starting with backers of the man who has been proclaimed the winner, Enrique...

The police beat reporter for the Zócalo Saltillo Newspaper, Stephania Cardoso Rodriguez and her two year old son were found alive. It was not reveal where they are and asked the Mexican state security for protection for herself and her family. In brief interview with Denise Maerker, the journalist did not reveal where, or how she came to take shelter, but said that so far it wasn't necessary to take extra security measures to protect their lives. Nervous and choppy voice sent a...

Assailants kidnapped and killed a reporter who covered the crime beat in Mexico's Veracruz state, officials said on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on journalists amid a relentless drug war across the country. Victor Baez, who worked for Mexican daily newspaper Milenio was abducted when he was leaving his office in the town of Xalapa late Wednesday and police found his body in the morning in the city center, said Gina Dominguez, spokeswoman for Veracruz state government. ...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) - A police beat reporter at a newspaper in northern Mexico and her infant son are missing and they are feared kidnapped, a newspaper official said Tuesday. Reporter Stephania Cardoso works for the El Zocalo newspaper in the city of Saltillo, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the U.S. border. She has been missing since Friday, said Eduardo Mendoza, El Zocalo's editor. She was last seen at a party with colleagues Thursday night. Mendoza said she called a...