The Spanish judge best known for issuing an arrest warrant against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has said that Mexico is winning the war against organized crime in Ciudad Juarez. But the statement is best described as rhetoric, rather than an accurate description of Juarez's more complex reality.

Banners have appeared in the city of Chihuahua, north Mexico, claiming to name those responsible for the massacre of 15 people in a bar last week.

Mexican authorities detained a U.S. trucker at the southwest border, after finding more than 250,000 rounds of ammunition for the assult rifles of choice of Mexico's criminal gangs.

The emergence of an aggressive new gang in Juarez has sparked a wave of attacks on local police, demonstrating just how difficult it is to engineer a lasting security improvement in Mexico's most violent city.

Juarez may spend $2 million to house the city's municipal police force in several hotels with heightened security, after a drug cartel appeared to be acting on threats to kill one police officer a day.

Mexican authorities have charged a general and 29 soliders under his command with murder and a range of human rights abuses in a rare crackdown on military impunity.

Testimony by a former Sinaloa Cartel operative provides details on the murky dealings between US authorities and their contacts in the Mexican underworld.

Mexico’s federal government has published its statistics regarding homicides in 2011, allowing for a glimpse at the changing state of public security within the nation.

As federal police withdraw from the troubled Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a newly-published report paints an alarming picture of the municipal police force as underequipped and overburdened.

While the most obvious symptom of Mexico’s current struggle with organized crime is stratospheric rates of violence, the fracturing of powerful trafficking organizations into a constellation of smaller groups could have a more lasting impact on the country.