A national poll showed two thirds of respondents believe drug lords and mobsters are more powerful than government after the gun battles forced an army retreat. Mexico sent in special forces ...

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The shooting deaths, if confirmed, would mark the second time in two weeks that Mexican military forces have killed civilians. It would also bring to three the number of children or adolescents ...

Multiple clashes on Thursday between Mexican security forces and alleged criminals left at least 16 people dead in the violence-plagued southern state of Guerrero, the military said. A first ...

"You cannot fire shots at people who are not armed," he told Reuters, adding the military prevented local security forces from accessing the crime scene. Mexico's defense ministry and presidency ...

The shooting deaths, if confirmed, would mark the second time in two weeks that Mexican military forces have killed civilians. It would also bring to three the number of children or adolescents ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s new president acknowledged Tuesday that three civilians including a child died in two shootouts involving the military last week in a violent border city.

HUIXTLA, Mexico (Reuters ... they target the armed forces, tend to peter out unresolved, most famously in the case of 43 students who disappeared in 2014 in which the army has been repeatedly ...

MEXICO CITY ... 30, gave the military an unprecedentedly wide role in public life and law enforcement. He created the militarized Guard and used the combined forces as the country’s main ...