William A. White, a former neo-Nazi leader and more recently a fugitive from the law, is back in the United States. White is being held in a federal detention facility in Miami, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Authorities flew White to Miami from Mexico, where he was arrested Friday on charges of violating his probation. White was quickly deported from Mexico, apparently because he entered the country illegally, said Chief Deputy Brad Sellers of the U.S. Marshals Service. ...

Like other observers, Reporters Without Borders is not entirely convinced by the Oaxaca state attorney-general’s announcement last week that a former public education employee, Lenin Osorio Ortega, has been arrested for the fatal shooting of US journalist Brad Will, an Indymedia cameraman, in the southern city of Oaxaca in October 2006. Coming nearly six years after Will’s murder during a wave of unrest that was crushed violently by the Oaxaca state authorities, this new...

A drug cartel lieutenant has been arrested over a series of firebomb attacks on Mexican potato-chip company Sabritas, a subsidiary of U.S. food giant PepsiCo. The gang-related bombings are believed to be the first time a multinational company has been targeted in Mexico's 5½-year-long drug war. Experts suggested that the attack may be linked to the company's apparent refusal to hand over protection money to the gangs which have terrorised local residents and businesses. Gerardo...

The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter has been found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday. A day earlier he had been kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at a car wash. Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body was found inside a black plastic bag near the city of Empalme, about 68 miles south of Ciudad Obregon where he was abducted, said Sonora state prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga. Larrinaga said police found a message signed by a cartel but would not...

A Minnesota man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups had devised a plan to attack the Mexican consulate in St. Paul and believed his actions would "manifest national awareness," according to a federal affidavit obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The affidavit, recently unsealed in federal court, provides details of the investigation into the alleged plans of Joseph Benjamin Thomas. The 42-year-old was indicted in April on drug charges, though authorities were...

Another journalist has been killed in Mexico, this time in the central state of Morelos. Police on Sunday found the body of Rene Orta Salgado in the trunk of his car in a suburb of Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos, located 90 kilometers (55 miles) from Mexico City, Spanish news agency EFE reported today. His face was covered with a bandana and there were no apparent gunshot wounds, El Pais newspaper reported, citing the Morelos Attorney General's office. Orta Salgado, a former reporter...

Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the same state. Press freedom groups said all three photographers had temporarily fled the state after receiving threats last year. The organizations called for immediate government action to halt a wave of...

Osama bin Laden was trying to recruit a Mexican national with a valid passport to sneak into the US and cause mayhem, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. The paper, citing an anonymous former U.S. official, said the head of Al Qaeda was troubled by radical Islamic fundamentalists who had taken an oath of U.S. citizenship then tried to launch attacks on American soil. He believed doing so violated Islamic law. “Bin Laden wanted someone who had not pledged allegiance [to the U.S.]. He...

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz say the body of a journalist with the national newsmagazine Proceso has been found dead inside her home. The Veracruz Attorney General's Office has released a statement saying Regina Martinez's body was found in the bathroom of her house in Xalapa, Veracruz, and that authorities believe she was murdered. The statement said that the journalist's body showed signs of "blows to the head and body" and initial evidence...

A former executive at a Canadian engineering firm who has been linked to a plot to smuggle Muammar Qaddafi’s son into Mexico has been arrested in Switzerland, officials said. Riadh Ben Aissa, a past executive vice president of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin’s construction arm, has been in custody in Switzerland since mid-April, the Swiss federal prosecutor’s office said late Sunday. “The state prosecutor’s office confirms the arrest of a Tunisian/Canadian...