7 workers die inside Mexico brewery tank
By Olga R. Rodriguez
Seven workers died while cleaning a tank at a Grupo Modelo brewery in Mexico City, authorities here said.
Seven workers died while cleaning a tank at a Grupo Modelo brewery in Mexico City, authorities here said.
Authorities in the state that surrounds Mexico City are vowing to step up security patrols after dismembered bodies began turning up there this month.
Authorities have confirmed that four people whose mutilated bodies were found in a hilly park on the eastern edge of Mexico City over the past two weeks were killed by wild dogs.
A Mexican official says armed men stormed into a “quinceanera” party in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey and killed a man and injured 11 guests.
Mexico City is sponsoring a program offering cash, toys and computer equipment in exchange for guns in a rough neighborhood where a 10-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet as he sat inside a movie theater.
The mass escape of 131 prisoners last week has thrown a spotlight on lawlessness inside Mexico’s prisons—violent places often controlled by gangs that use them as recruiting grounds.
A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of central Mexico on Tuesday, US seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
A drastic shortage has sparked a desperate egg hunt in Mexico, after a bird flu outbreak forced farmers to cull some 11 million hens, a disaster in the world’s leading per capita egg consumer.
Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists says 67 journalists have been killed and 14 have disappeared in the country since 2006.
Killings by criminal gangs in the drug violence-wracked border city of Ciudad Juarez fell by 42 percent in the first six months of this year from the same period of 2011, Mexico’s army said Wednesday.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico City Saturday against the presidential election win of Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him and his party of widespread vote-buying.
Pre-election polls on Mexico’s presidential vote had projected that leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would lose by a double-digit margin.
Gunmen burst into a bar in the northern Mexico city of Chihuahua, killing 15 people, including two journalists, prosecuting attorneys said Saturday.
