Woman accused of killing girl beaten to death by mob in Mexico
The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared and her body was found on a road on the outskirts of the city.
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The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared and her body was found on a road on the outskirts of the city.
About two dozen bags containing human remains were found in a clandestine cemetery, the Guerreros Buscadores collective said.
Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his "hugs, not bullets" policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels.
The woman was released without paying the ransom kidnappers sought, diplomats said on social media.
The helicopter was assigned to the federal Southwest border support mission.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has accused the Biden administration of creating a war zone on the border by failing to enforce federal immigration law. Abbott is defending Texas' controversial actions to deter illegal crossings.
"Crime, including violent crime, can occur anywhere in Mexico, including in popular tourist destinations," the U.S. Mission to Mexico said in a news release on Thursday.
Police responding to reports of a criminal gang clash found 5 bodies in a remote Mexican town not far from the location of a 2020 massacre.
The clashes happened in the same area where four U.S. citizens, two of whom later died, were kidnapped at gunpoint last year.
Migrants in Mexico have moved on to another border crossing after Mexico's government set up a checkpoint near a fence gap known as the San Judas Break.
The gang was protected by a network of motorcycle taxis and minors who acted as lookouts, officials said.
Officials said the killings appeared to involve a "settling of scores" between cartels.
A 16-year-old who has been wanted in connection to two murders has been arrested.
Authorties say José Alberto García Vilano is known by two nicknames -- "Cyclone 19" and "La Kena"
The visit came as migrants are crossing the border in record numbers and Congress has been unable to reach a consensus on funding border security.
Aaron Balderrama, 23, had cocaine hidden in four wheels of cheese.
Archaeologists exploring the cave removed the boulder and discovered the rock was "literally splitting" a human skeleton in half.
The victim was trying to boost her child aboard a floating play platform when the shark bit her, officials said.
Jalisco cartel members have scammed at least 600 Americans out of about $40 million, officials said.
A two-day trip to the Texas southern border has two North Texas mayors calling for more local elected leaders to visit and amplify calls to better manage the number of migrants crossing into the state.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge this week seized more than $3.5 million in cocaine.
Hurricane Otis plowed into Mexico's Pacific coast as a deadly Category 5. Just 12 hours earlier, it was a tropical storm.
Tens of thousands of residents in damaged homes without electricity awaited help more than a day after Otis roared ashore in Acapulco.
In just a matter of hours, Otis strengthened into a major hurricane, threatening "catastrophic damage" along Mexico's Pacific coast before weakening.
Violence that broke out Monday in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan was the latest to hit regions plagued by drug trafficking.
