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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is postponing a brief trade trip to Mexico, saying that President Felipe Calderon has a scheduling conflict.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he will meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon next month.
Grappling with low supplies of swine flu vaccines, President Felipe Calderon persuaded drug makers this week to sell him 30 million doses, while 1,000 Mexicans lined up for an experimental vaccine they hope can speed up supplies.
Tens of thousands of people have marched to protest Mexican President Felipe Calderon's decision to disband a public electricity company.
A court has ordered a Bolivian preacher kept in jail during the investigation into sabotage and kidnapping charges in the hijacking of a jetliner from the resort city of Cancun.
Police say a body with both arms cut off was found dumped on a street in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
A group of women whose daughters were murdered in a violent Mexican border city are protesting President Felipe Calderon's choice for new attorney general.
Neighbors mopped blood from the sidewalk outside a drug rehabilitation center Thursday, cleaning up the carnage after gunmen lined up patients against a wall and then riddled them with bullets, killing 18.
The Mexican army said Monday that soldiers captured Luis Ricardo Magana, who prosecutors describe as a leading member of the violent La Familia drug cartel.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he supports the idea of a free trade agreement between Brazil and Mexico, the two biggest economies in Latin America.
President Barack Obama says drug cartels are the largest violators of human rights in Mexico and he has confidence Mexican President Felipe Calderon is cracking down without violating human rights.
A day before facing a potentially boisterous town hall in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama praised the spirited debate over his health care plans on Monday and predicted "sensible and reasoned arguments" would ultimately prevail in Congress.
The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Tuesday that a report to be finished next week and submitted to the Senate will stress that Mexico is making progress on respecting human rights in its fight against drug cartels.
President Felipe Calderon says Mexico will start issuing nationwide identity cards for its citizens starting this year, and by 2012 everyone will have one.
Mexican police say they have captured 11 suspected members of the La Familia cartel and seized a methamphetamine lab in the western state of Michoacan.
Mexico on Thursday ordered 5,500 federal police, soldiers and navy personnel to move into a gang-plagued western state following a cartel's slaying of 20 officers and troops in one of the boldest revenge attacks ever mounted against the government.
Mexico's long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party promised Monday it has learned from the past and changed its ways, a day after midterm elections made it the largest force in Congress again.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon made a push Monday for his proposal for a $10 billion "green fund" as a more efficient way to fight climate change than carbon credits.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Monday that a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping will have to serve her 60-year sentence in Mexico, rejecting appeals by France to send her home.
President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday the future of Mexican democracy is at stake in the government's fight against official corruption and organized crime, and he criticized politicians who he said want to return to the era when gangs were tolerated.
The arrest of a drug cartel lieutenant as he stepped off a private plane — fresh from a brazen baptism party held by his boss — has sparked a debate about whether Mexico is winning the drug war or facing a fearless enemy.
A Foreign Relations Department official says Mexico will send a plane to China to bring back citizens after the Asian country quarantined more than 70 Mexican travelers in its fight against swine flu.
President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are pledging to work together on challenges confronting both countries.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Monday he's ruled out joint raids with the United States aimed at stemming drug cartel violence along their border, but called for closer cooperation between the neighboring nations.
The Mexican army arrested an alleged drug trafficker suspected of organizing an attack on a U.S. consulate as well as the killing of several soldiers in retaliation for a government crackdown, President Felipe Calderon said Friday.
Mexico charges Bolivian in plane hijackingProsecutors charge Bolivian pastor with sabotage, illegal retention of people and attack on a means of transport in the hijacking of a plane from Cancun, the attorney general's office said Friday.
Mexico begins destroying 79,000 seized gunsThe Mexican army and prosecutors announced Tuesday they have started destroying 79,074 firearms seized a decade or more ago.
Mexican President takes a pay cut MEXICAN President Felipe Calderon on Friday signed a decree to cut his own pay and that of top government officials by 10 percent.
Mexico's president Felipe Calderon, the queen of England, and ex-U.S. president, George W. Bush were sharing a late night ride when their car ran out of gas.
French prisoner's parents seek Mexico boycottThe parents and supporters of a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping by a Mexican court are urging French travelers to boycott Mexico, just as the vacation season is at its peak.
Mexico: Cartel suspect plotted to kill presidentPolice arrest a drug cartel suspect they believe plotted to kill President Felipe Calderon in retaliation for his crackdown on organized crime, the head of the anti-drug unit said Monday.
Alleged teenage hitmen escape Mexico jailSeventeen teenagers, many accused of working as hitmen for drug gangs, escaped from a juvenile detention center near the U.S. border on Thursday after digging through an outer wall, police said.
Gunmen kill 5 at bar in Mexico tourist zoneGunmen killed five bar patrons in drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, Mexican officials said Friday.
4 bodies, including 2 police, dumped in MexicoThe bodies of four people, including two state police officers, were found dumped Thursday in a western Mexican state known for drug violence.
Texas girl mourned after being killed in MexicoA middle school student visiting from San Elizario, a small farming community east of El Paso, was gunned down Saturday along with a family friend as she stood in front of a Mexican hamburger stand.
Gunmen kill 9 in western Mexico, shoot horsesGunmen killed nine people in three separate attacks in the Mexico's drug-plagued western state of Michoacan, authorities said Sunday.
Mexico's Army and Human Rights- Crimes that Go UnpunishedWHEN he took office as Mexico's president in December 2006, Felipe Calderón was faced with the unchecked and violent power of drug gangs and a corrupt and ineffective set of police forces.
7 Mexican cops shot dead in 60-minute spanSeven police officers were assassinated in what authorities said Tuesday was a coordinated effort that followed months of relative calm in a Mexican border city stricken by drug-fueled violence.
What's hot, green and Mexican?ASK anyone who has read a newspaper in the past few months what is the greatest threat faced by Mexico, and the answer will inevitably be the drug gangs whose violence resulted in over 6,000 deaths last year and is the main reason Barack Obama came to visit this week.
Ineffective U.S. gun control laws allow illegal trade in assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels to flourishThe federal system for tracking gun sales, crafted over the years to avoid infringements on Second Amendment rights, makes it difficult to quickly spot suspicious trends and to identify people buying for smugglers, law enforcement officials say.
Mexican President Calderon says he would like to see the U.S. enforce its gun laws.The drug war in Mexico is being fought with assault weapons that are manufactured or originate in the U.S. and are shipped illegally across the border.
Obama set to name "border czar": report. Writing by JoAnne Allen; Editing by Peter Cooney. Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:42pm EDTWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will name former Justice Department official Alan Bersin to oversee its policy on illegal immigration and drug-related violence along the U.S. border with Mexico, Politico reported on Tuesday.
Anti-aircraft machine gun nets Mexico arrestMexican authorities arrested a woman guarding an arsenal that included the first anti-aircraft machine gun seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday.
Obama administration to name a border czarA former Justice Department official has been chosen as the top U.S. official along the southwest border with Mexico.
Obama administration to name a border czarA former Justice Department official has been chosen as the top U.S. official along the southwest border with Mexico.
The Two Faces of U.S. Drug PolicyThe Obama Administration is cheerleading Mexico's drug war as it reins in our own
Mexico's Border Surge Working, For Now More of a concern to border agents these days is the violence in Juarez, just down the road.
Monterrey attack suspect arrestedMexico's president has announced the arrest of an alleged senior drug cartel member accused of a grenade attack on the US consulate in Monterrey.
2,000 more troops arrive in Mexico border cityMexico deployed 2,000 troops to this embattled northern border city Friday to reinforce a crackdown against drug gangs.
Mexico rejects US drugs warningMexican President Felipe Calderon has rejected US concern that his country could become a failed state because of a growing wave of drug violence. Mr Calderon, in an interview with the Associated Press, said the cartels did not control any part of his country.
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