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Mexico is ending its unprecedented open relationship with U.S. security agencies that developed in recent years to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.All contact for U.S. law enforcement will now go through "a single window," the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy, said Sergio Alcocer, deputy foreign secretary for North American affairs.Alcocer confirmed the change to The Associated Press on Monday, three days before U.S. President Barack Obama visits for his first bilateral meeting with his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office Dec. 1.The new policy is a dramatic shift from the direct sharing of resources and intelligence between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement under former President Felipe Calderon, who was lauded by the U.S. repeatedly for increasing cooperation between the two countries. FBI, CIA, DEA and border patrol agents had direct access to units of Mexico's Federal Police, army and navy and worked clos...
Mexico's government says drug-related killings from December through March dropped by 14 percent compared to the same period a year earlier.The Interior Department s...
Lawmakers in Mexico's Chihuahua state on Saturday awarded this drug cartel-plagued border city the title of "Heroic" Ciudad Juarez to honor its role in the 1910 Mexi...
President Felipe Calderon delivered the last state-of-the-nation report of his administration Saturday, saying he is leaving Mexico with the foundation for "true and...
Construction of a monument that Mexico City residents say resembles a giant cream-filled wafer was soured by overspending and building code violations, an audit has ...
One of Mexico's biggest political kingfish sits in a women's prison in the capital, accused of embezzling millions in funds from her teachers' union to pay for prope...
Mexico's new administration says an official count shows at least 26,121 people reported missing during the term of President Felipe Calderon, who launched the count...
A member of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon's administration disputed on Friday that there is a list of 27,000 missing people as announced by the current go...
A new Human Rights Watch report calls Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" and cites 249 cases of disappearances, about 149 of which include evidence of being c...
A little past midnight on a recent Friday, Manuel López, a 26-year-old lawyer, accidentally drives his beige Volkswagen Polo into a gun battle between rival drug gan...
The U.S. Justice Department has determined that an American convicted in Mexico of drug trafficking was tortured by authorities while in Mexican custody, a move that...
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez is moving to consolidate his hold on Honduras, after orchestrating the return last Saturday of his puppet, Manuel Zelaya . Officials in...
Dallas Tea Party Activist Katrina Pierson on Mexican President Felipe Calderon telling the U.S. to review its gun control policy after the shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon was sitting down with Cuba's Raul Castro on Wednesday to strengthen economic cooperation and further repair a relationship that has...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is set to speak at Stanford University's 120th commencement this weekend.Stanford student leaders say they nominated Calderon to be...
President-elect Barack Obama is meeting with Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon .Likely topics for discussion include the North American Free Trade Agreement , whic...
In just one week, some of Mexico's most high-profile corruption cases have unraveled on thin or made-up evidence, reinforcing long-held notions that the Attorney Gen...
Some of Mexico's most high-profile corruption cases have unraveled recently on thin or made-up evidence, reinforcing long-held notions that the Attorney General's Of...
A Mexican official says federal prosecutors have dropped organized crime charges against a retired army general accused of aiding a drug cartel after determining tha...
A Mexican judge has acquitted a former drug czar who was charged with organized crime after he allegedly accepted $450,000 to leak details of police operations again...