• Mexico City legalizes most abortions
  
  
• Son of U.S. Consul Stabbed in Mexico
  OAXACA, Mexico -- The son of the U.S. consul in southern Oaxaca state was stabbed during an apparent mugging, U.S. Consul Mark Leyes said Monday. Leyes said three assailants beat and stabbed his son, Marcos Leyes Perez, and then took his money after he left a disco in Oaxaca City at about 1 a.m. Sunday.
  
  
• Police Find Body of Mexican Editor
  The Miami-based Inter American Press Association has reported an alarming number of journalists killed in Mexico on orders from drug gangs, including seven since October. Two others have disappeared and eight have reported receiving death threats.
  

• Spring-breakers party on amid Acapulco drug war
  
  
• "Feel the warmth of Mexico" - Suspects arrested after rape of Tacoma woman at Mexico hotel
  Police spokeswoman Claudia Medina said the men, 23 and 27, met the woman on the beach and invited her for a drink at a hotel. Hotel personnel found the woman tied up after attackers left her room Wednesday night. The woman remained hospitalized in Veracruz with a broken rib and facial injuries and was under strict guard, Medina said. - (Mexico)
  
  
• Mexican soldiers accused of rape, murder
  VERACRUZ, Mexico — Four Mexican soldiers were arrested and accused of raping and murdering a 73-year-old woman in a case that has outraged Indian groups in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Prosecutors said Wednesday the victim was bound, beaten and sodomized on Sunday and died at a hospital from injuries sustained in the attack. - (Mexico)
  

Gruesome, Sickening Discovery in Mexico Warning: This news story contains graphic denoscriptions.
Skulls and bones have been dug up from the Tecuaque archeological site near Mexico City that date to the 1500s. But these are no ordinary skeletons. They are the remains of invading Spanish forces in 1520 who were captured by the Aztecs and then ritually sacrificed and partially eaten.
Reuters reports that about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings. They were then dismembered or had their bones boiled and then scraped clean. The discovery supports historical accounts that the Aztecs carried out such gruesome killings of the Spanish conquistadors, as well as local men, women and children traveling with them, in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king of the Aztec empire's No. 2 city of Texcoco. - (Newsroom) - (Mexico)

• 3 Police Killed, 1 Decapitated in Mexico
  ACAPULCO, Mexico -- The bodies of three state police officers, one of whom had been decapitated, were found Saturday in a sport utility vehicle abandoned outside the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, police said. Criminals have left the decapitated heads of at least six victims in front of government offices with threatening notes attached and authorities say the violence is part of a turf war between drug traffickers over shipment routes.
• 3 Killed in Mexican Protest; Police Move In
• Mexican police move on Oaxaca

• Mexican Gangs Displaying Severed Heads
  In Michoacan, the home state of President-elect Felipe Calderon, 17 heads have turned up this year, many with bloodstained notes like the one found in the highlands town of Tepalcatepec in August: "See. Hear. Shut Up. If you want to stay alive." - (Newsroom) - (Mexico)
  

• Mexican Alleging Sodomite Catholic Priest Abuse Sues Cardinals
  LOS ANGELES -- A 25-year-old Mexican man who says he was raped by a priest filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Roman Catholic church officials in Los Angeles and Mexico, claiming they conspired to hide evidence to protect the priest. According to the lawsuit, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney and Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera placed the priest, Nicolas Aguilar, in posts where he molested as many as 60 boys in the two countries. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Joaquin Aguilar Mendez in Los Angeles Superior Court. Representatives of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests appeared with the accuser at a news conference but did not file the action. - (Mexico)
  

• Past Incidents of Mexico Election Fraud
• Cancun police officer latest to be gunned down in Mexico
• Illegal Mexican migrant rapist serial 'Railroad killer' begs forgiveness before dying
  

• Mexico City: Nude Cyclists Want Respect From Motorists
  

• Policemen Gunned Down in Mexico Border Town
• Fox Promotes Investment in Mexico

• Arrogant Mexico Threatens Suits Over Guard Patrols
  
• Senate Votes to Prevent Immigrant-Felons From Gaining Legal Status in U.S.
  
 
• Mexico Voters Fear Nation on Edge of Chaos
  MEXICO CITY -- Police enraged by the kidnapping of six officers club unarmed detainees. A bloody battle between steelworkers and police leaves two miners dead. Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge. 
  

• Senate leaders clear path for immigration amnesty bill
  Republican and Democratic Senate leaders agreed on Thursday on a plan to revive a bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn U.S. citizenship. - (Invasion!)
  
• Arizona Sheriff Uses Anti-Smuggling Law to Target Illegals
  
• Mexico Calls on Zapatistas to Disarm  
• Survey: Bribes a Way of Life in Mexico
  

• Women Allege Sex Abuse by Mexican Police
• Mexico Lawmakers Claim Fraud by Fox's Sons
  
• Zapatistas in 'social rage' warning
• Mexico is in a state of rage, Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos has warned in a rare TV interview. Marcos voiced his support for peasant farmers who clashed with police last week in a riot that killed a teenager. He said the current climate was like that in 1994, when the Zapatistas led a brief armed indigenous uprising in the southern state of Chiapas.  

• Making phony ID documents for illegal workers is a big business
  
  
• Mexican cops battle protesters outside capital
• Mexican police retake riot town
• Police take control following violent clashes in rebellious town outside Mexico City 
  
  
• Bush tells immigrants to learn English
  

• Two Mexican Police Officials Decapitated
• 'Coyotes' Openly Do Business in Mexico
  
  
• Arrests stay flat as border bolstered
• Chertoff gets tough with employers of illegals
• U.S. Cracks Down on Hiring of Illegal Immigrants
  
  
• Howard Dean calls the border top priority  
  

• Terror for Mexico's illegal migrants
  
  
• Mexican Roman Catholic Priest Confesses to Killing and Dismembering his Pregnant Lover
  TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) -- A Mexican priest has confessed to strangling his pregnant lover after Easter Mass and cutting her body into pieces, a state attorney general said. The Rev. Cesar Torres, 42, confessed to slaying 22-year-old Veronica Andrade Salinas at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in the city of Nezahualcoyotl on Mexico City's eastern outskirts,  
  

• Few Protections for Migrants to Mexico
  TULTITLAN, Mexico -- Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Police and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, bus stations and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money. While migrants in the United States have held huge demonstrations in recent weeks, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Central Americans in Mexico suffer mostly in silence. And though Mexico demands humane treatment for its citizens who migrate to the U.S., regardless of their legal status, Mexico provides few protections for migrants on its own soil.

• Police Chief of Mexican Border City Resigns
  Omar Pimentel, 38, presented a letter of resignation to Mayor Daniel Pena late Wednesday, hours after police found three charred bodies dumped by the side of a road leading into Nuevo Laredo. Pimentel's predecessor, Alejandro Dominguez, was gunned down just seven hours after being sworn in last June.  
  

• 2 alleged Mexican criminals Deported Tuesday
  EL PASO, TX. - Two alleged criminals who were arrested in the US are deported back to their native Mexico Tuesday. US Federal Officials escorted two criminals back to their native Mexico, and handed them over to police in Juarez. According to Mexican law enforcment officials, the two men are wanted for two separate murders. Hector Cepeda-Vargas, who was found living in Wisconsin, allegedly shot and killed a policewoman in Durango. The other man, Jesus Murga-Parada allgedly shot and killed a man following a bar fight in Chihuahua City. - (Mexico) - (Invasion!)
  

• Mexican Radio Announcer Gunned Down
  NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- An anchorman for a Mexican radio station was shot to death early Friday by gunmen waiting for him in the bushes in front of his house in this violent border city. Ramiro Tellez Contreras, who also worked for the state emergency services and was a former policeman, was hit by two bullets in the neck and two in the chest, state police said in a news release.  - (Mexico) - (Newsroom)
  

Mexican Man Suspected in Killings Arrested
MONTERREY, Mexico -- Authorities have captured a man accused of stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend and killing her two young siblings, attacks that have shocked this northern city. Diego Santoy, 21, was captured at a police roadblock in the southern state of Oaxaca on Monday night, four days after ex-girlfriend Erika Pena, 18, was killed. Her 3-year-old sister was strangled, and her 7-year-old brother was stabbed to death, said Luis Trevino, the top prosecutor for Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located.  

• U.S., Mexico Discuss Migration, Security
• Mexican female wrestler to Stand Trial in Six Deaths
  Prosecutors said they have evidence implicating Juana Barraza as the notorious "Mataviejitas," or "Little Old Lady Killer."
• A War in Mexico: Drug Runners Gun Down Journalists

Mexican Man Suspected in Killings Arrested
Salvador Fernando Molina Garcia told investigators that his wife became a prostitute against his wishes after they illegally crossed the border and came to Houston. But the woman he identified as his wife said he lured her to his apartment in Mexico, raped her and forced her into prostitution here. Molina Garcia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a sex-trafficking conspiracy charge.  The 37-year-old man is one of six Mexican nationals indicted on charges accusing them of smuggling young women and girls across the border and forcing them to work as prostitutes in Houston bars. The organization used violence, threats and deception to recruit victims and hold them in prostitution.- (Invasion!)   Mexican national pleads guilty to bringing sex slaves to Houston-area bars
Ref: Mexican girls were forced to work as prostitutes at Houston-area bars
Ref: Acusan en EU a cuatro mexicanos de tráfico de mujeres adolescentes - (Mexico)

• "Cross-dressing" serial killer stumps Mexico City police  
  MEXICO CITY -- The killer is either a cross-dressing man or a robust woman who strangles elderly women with stockings or telephone cables.
  Mexican police believe the so-called "Mataviejitas," or "Little Old Lady Killer," has killed at least seven elderly women in the country's bustling capital of 20 million, although they are investigating whether 22 other slayings of older Mexico City women since 2003 are also related.
  

• On Mexican border, three men detained for rape, homicide of a 17-year-old girl
  Authorities say two of the suspects admit they'd been drinking with Claudia Flores Javier in her home early December 24th when one of them proposed having sex with her. She refused.  Mexico investigators say the three then raped the teen. She also was beaten. The three suspects are Mario Loya Aguirre and Jorge Armando Sifuentes Martinez _ both detained on December 25th -- and Eleazar Pena Navarro, who was arrested Tuesday.   All are jailed in Juarez, across the border from El Paso.

• Body of young girl found in suitcase in Mexico - Police make grim discovery on sidewalk in Mexico City
  MEXICO CITY - Police discovered the body of a young girl on Thursday that had been stuck inside a suitcase and left on a busy sidewalk in Mexico City.Investigators were working to identify the girl, thought to be between 5 and 6 years old, and establish the cause of death, a police spokeswoman said.
• Mexican Policeman accused of stealing hurricane aid

• Smugglers Selling Sick Puppies From Mexico
  On Nov. 15, federal agents searching a Honda CR-V at the Otay Mesa crossing found 16 undeclared puppies in three cages that were covered by blankets and boxes of laundry detergent. The suspect, a Mexican woman with an animal cruelty record, allegedly told investigators she needed the money and had lots of orders to fill.  

• Mexican Police Rescue 3 Kidnapping Victims 
  MEXICO CITY -- Police raided a house outside Mexico City, capturing two alleged kidnappers and rescuing three people, including an 8-year-old girl, who had been held for more than two months. The dramatic morning raid, widely aired on Mexican television, comes amid scrutiny of the Federal Agency of Investigation, the country's FBI, for connections to drug traffickers and a video showing the killing of a self-described drug hit man.
• Mexico: Ex-Cop Sentenced in Cardinal's Death
  GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- A court has sentenced a former police commander to 40 years in prison in the 1993 shooting death of a Roman Catholic cardinal at the Guadalajara airport, officials said Friday. The court said Humberto Rodriguez Banuelos was part of a gang of gunmen that riddled Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo with bullets while he was sitting in his car at the airport in Guadalajara, 280 miles northwest of Mexico City.

• Mexican Juan Fernando Licea-Cedillo Gets 24 Years in illegal immigrants Railcar Deaths Case
  The accused leader of a South Texas smuggling ring was sentenced Monday to more than 24 years in prison for his role in the 2002 train car deaths of 11 illegal immigrants. Juan Fernando Licea-Cedillo bought information about train schedules from Arnulfo Flores Jr., a former Union Pacific train conductor, so he could know when to put immigrants on trains northbound from the Rio Grande Valley. - (Invasion!)
• Mexican Women who cross border illegally are targets for rape - their underpants often hung on a border fence as a trophy
• U.S. border Patrol negotiates tough terrain
• Vatican Beatifies 13 Mexican Martyrs
  The Vatican on Sunday beatified 13 Mexicans who died during a Roman Catholic uprising in the late 1920s
  that was crushed by the Mexican government.

• Mexico Charges Seven Cops With Kidnapping  
• Mexican Drug Lords Increasingly Powerful
• Mexico's Prisons Are Home to Drug Lords  

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