The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Anti-crime campaigner sacked following escalation of drug-related violence and 37 deaths in one weekend
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The police chief in the Mexican border town of Tijuana has been removed after a spate of drug-related violence that left almost 40 people dead in two days. Nine beheaded bodies were found Sunday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. They were accompanied by a sign that read We worked for El Gordo Villareal, a reference to a leader in the Arellano Felix drug cartel....
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite a recent military offensive, at least 38 people have been killed in the city's drug wars since Saturday, nine of them decapitated. At least 38 people have been killed in Tijuana since Saturday, nine of them decapitated, in escalating drug-related violence that appears to have left in tatters a Mexican military offensive launched two weeks ago.The killing spree marked the end of the tenure of...
The Orlando Business Journal (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Tijuana Flats Burrito Co. announced it will be opening its first location in Marion County in early 2009.
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | yesterday
I want reasons. I want motives. I want explanations. While I’m off having fun, vacationing just south of the violent city in which I live, dozens are being shot and killed back home, yet none of the news reports offer any real explanations. I myself can only provide more questions, not answers, and relay my [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Freshman Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), son of former GOP presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, recently was elected to Congress after campaigning on a staunch anti-immigration platform. During an interview with MSNBC’s Luke Russert today, Hunter defended his campaign pledge to end citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, arguing immigration increases domestic crime. As his evidence, [...]...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
As Mexican drug war intensifies, unofficial death toll approaches 5000, almost double 2007 figure
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tijuana's police chief has been fired after a wave of violence that left 37 people dead over three days in the Mexican border ...
euronews24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
TIJUANA, Mexico – At least 37 people were killed over three days in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, including four children caught in shootouts and nine men found decapitated, the state attorney general said Monday.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
AT LEAST 38 people have been killed since Friday, nine of them decapitated, in escalating drug-related violence that appears to have left in tatters a Mexican military offensive launched two weeks ago, writes in Tijuana
'Winging It (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter claims there is more violence in Tijuana, Mexico than in Iraq and Afghanistan . His additional comments regarding public safety in Baghdad are equally incredible.
IOL (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
A note has been left next to a man's head in Mexico, signed "the people's avenger".
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Eustis Main Street will present its second annual Christmas on the Water from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday in downtown Eustis and Ferran Park.
ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
NPR is running a series on the U.S. Mexican border. Here are the first two parts of a five part series: Part One: Deaths, Violence Plague Border In Tijuana December 1, 2008 Part Two: The Deported Struggle To Reenter U.S....
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
The local government of Tijuana in northern Mexico has fired its minister for public security, in the frankest admission yet that the country's anti-crime policy along the US border is not working
