Sources: UPI
A series of shootouts and encounters are reported in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, after the arrest of the regional leader of the Cártel del Noreste and leader of an armed wing in the state. The United States Consulate in Mexico issues an alert for its citizens to not go out on the streets, and the Nuevo Laredo International Airport suspends activities due to the violence. 2025-02-4
Authorities find 123 Central and South American migrants trapped in a trailer in San Luis Potosi, Mexico after a local reported hearing cries for help from a locked trailer box. 2023-11-10
Cartel gunmen in Mexico burn down dozens of stores and block streets with burning cars in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to arrests of cartel figures by the National Guard. 2022-08-10
One person is killed and one is missing after a fire at an oil refinery in Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2022-07-29
Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in a traffic collision in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico. 2022-05-22
The number of cases in Mexico reaches past 600,000. The death toll in the country reaches to 65,241. 2020-09-1
Socorro Flores Liera, Mexico's deputy foreign minister for Latin America and the Caribbean, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Mexico City, that during the first half of 2017, 1,420 Venezuelans have sought asylum in Mexico, a nearly four-fold jump compared to the 361 total Venezuelan asylum applicants for all of 2016, as the result of Venezuela's deepening political and economic crisis. 2017-08-4
Mexican senior officials say President Peña Nieto may cancel his plans to visit the White House next Tuesday, January 31, because of President Trump's actions. 2017-01-25
Tropical Storm Earl makes its final landfall near Veracruz in eastern Mexico, producing flooding rains that kill at least six. 2016-08-6
Janet Napolitano, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, rolls out the Obama administration's strategy to curb drug smuggling on the Mexican border. 2011-07-7