Prosecutors announced today that a Mexican appeals court reversed Hector "El Güero" Palma's acquittal in the 1990s, averting an international embarrassment.
A Kentucky woman vacationing in Cancun was reportedly wounded by a stray bullet fired by a pair of jet ski-riding gunmen who killed two people in an apparent turf war between rival drug gangs.
Mexico is coping with a new surge of refugees who have been deported from the United States, and more are moving north in the hopes of reaching the border.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who had been under investigation for at least two years, was also accused of conspiring to expel her husband, Mexico's most prominent drug lord, from jail.
Mariana Sanchez Davalos was a 24-year-old medical student at a clinic in the municipality of Ocosingo, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, completing her social service.
