Mexico’s main presidential candidates have all embraced longstanding proposals to unite municipal police forces under a single command, but such a fix could actually make it harder for police to fight increasingly localized criminal groups.
Faced with a fraught penal system which impedes efforts to punish criminals, Mexican authorities are looking to a New Mexico prison as a model for how to improve the nation’s penitentiaries.
A new report offers an on-the-ground picture of the Border Patrol’s operations in southern Arizona, and their efforts to contain the flood of migrants -- who are increasingly used to carry drugs -- crossing the border from Mexico.
The deaths of at least a dozen people in clashes in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, as rival groups linked to the Zetas move into "Chapo Guzman's" home territory, may be evidence that the concept of the "plaza" dominated by a single group is losing its force.
Mexican authorities say that three different groups are currently fighting over Michoacan -- this could mean the state will see a lengthy, destabilizing conflict in which no group is able to vanquish the others.
A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official says Mexico's next head of state should escalate President Felipe Calderon's fight against organized crime, but he addresses none of the justifiable sources of criticism of Calderon's approach.
The murder of eight taxi drivers in a Monterrey suburb appears to be the latest assault by organized criminal groups against transport workers in Mexico, with the Zetas fingered as the killers.
Mexico's prison system is in crisis, with prisoners able to distribute drugs, smuggle weapons, throw parties and even arrange their “exits." Nexos magazine offers five suggestions for how to recover control over the system.
