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From Bangladesh to Mexico, one lesson: Gen Z has power. It needs patience

November 19, 2025 12:12 pm

What the world is witnessing is a generation that has the courage to shake political structures but not yet the tools to rebuild them. But the challenge lies in what comes after the uprising

Mexico City mayor's personal secretary and adviser shot dead by motorbike killers

May 21, 2025 7:27 am

According to Mexico City’s administration, the two aides who were shot dead were the mayor's private secretary, Ximena Guzman, and an adviser to Brugada, Jose Munoz.

After 4 sons vanish, their mother devotes her life to Mexico’s missing

November 12, 2022 11:07 am

Doña Mary, as she’s affectionately known, has become a leader among the mothers searching Mexico for their loved ones, connecting a disparate group of grief-stricken women into a national movement that has demanded action from a government they say has long ignored them

Journalist killed in Mexico, 15th to die so far this year

August 23, 2022 8:40 am

2022 has been one of the deadliest ever for journalists in Mexico, which is now considered the most dangerous country for reporters outside a war zone.

19 burned bodies found near Mexico-US border town

January 25, 2021 1:21 am

The Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office said late Saturday that the bodies were discovered along a dirt road outside Camargo after residents reported a burning vehicle.

Explained | Mexico's week of bloodshed. What is going on?

October 19, 2019 4:56 pm

Mexico's 'War on Drugs' started in 2006 with former President Felipe Calderon, who sent in armed forces to tackle the increasingly powerful drug cartels, which had shifted gears from smuggling cocaine for the Colombian cartels to becoming full narcotrafficking operations themselves. Since then, more than 200,000 people have been killed in gang-fueled violence and over 40,000 are missing.

Soldiers kill six gunmen near Mexico-US border

June 21, 2015 2:00 pm

Gunmen traveling in two trucks shot at soldiers patrolling Mexico-US border in Tamailpas. Soldiers returned fire killing six.

Mexican mayor, wife detained in case of 43 missing

November 05, 2014 4:27 am

The hunt for fugitive ex-mayor and his wife accused of running their Mexican town as a narco-fiefdom ended Tuesday.

14 killed on bloodstained Saturday in Mexico

February 19, 2012 9:39 am

Two policemen were among those slain in the early morning hours in a clash with unidentified assailants.

Another 32 bodies found dumped in Mexico's Veracruz

October 07, 2011 10:33 am

A vigilante group,Zeta Killers,had claimed responsibility for killing of 35 people last month.

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