Mexico Political Update – Chrysler opens 570 million dollar engine plant in Mexico

Chrysler opens 570 million dollar engine plant in Mexico
US automaker Chrysler inaugurated a 570-million-dollar engine plant in northern Mexico Friday, the Mexican presidency said in a statement.

Mexican gray wolf found dead in S.W. New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE – Another Mexican gray wolf has been found dead in southwestern New Mexico, dealing a further setback to a struggling program to reintroduce the endangered animals along the Arizona-New Mexico border.

Report: The Salvadoran ex-guerrilla advising Mexico’s drug-war leaders
Nearly 30,000 people, the latest figure being used, have died in Mexico’s drug war in the nearly four years since President Felipe Calderon dispatched the military to disrupt the country’s drug-trafficking organizations. Calderon’s administration has consistently claimed that the high casualty rate is a sign of success. The Mexican president might have a former guerrilla commander to thanks for …

Mexico suffers wave of murders
Police inspect the site of shooting in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, Oct. 28, 2010. Eleven people died and 15 were injured in two separate shooting incidents in Mexico, Mexican newspapers reported on their websites on Thursday.

Mexico caught in bloody anti-drugs war
At least nine Mexican police officers have been shot and killed in an ambush and six youths shot dead in Mexico City, in what police say may have been a gang-related feud.

Mexico: Cruz Azul top, Queretaro hopes alive
Mexican Apertura leaders Cruz Azul won 1-0 against Puebla with a Christian Gimenez header proving decisive.

Police rescue 23 Honduran migrants held captive in Mexico
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico—Mexican police have rescued at least 23 Honduran illegal migrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom, the Tabasco state prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.

Drug deaths resonate for Mexico’s Day of the Dead
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Mexicans prepare to celebrate the Day of the Dead on Monday and Tuesday in the shadow of a particularly gruesome week of drug violence, including at least four massacres across the country.