Articles by Ken Ellingwood

Two men were being held as possible suspects in the fatal grenade attack this week on an Independence Day celebration in western Michoacan state, authorities said today. Read more

Gloria Alvarez never got to shout “Viva Mexico!” Read more

MEXICO CITY – Officials on Tuesday blamed organized crime for a series of blasts during Independence Day festivities in western Mexico that killed at least seven people and injured dozens more. Read more

Federal police in the northern state of Coahuila had seven drug suspects in hand last week when they met a caravan of gun-toting men apparently intent on freeing the arrestees. Read more

Federal police in the northern state of Coahuila had seven drug suspects in hand this week when they met a caravan of gun-toting men apparently intent on freeing the arrestees. Read more

There were no shoving matches at the door, no showdowns at the dais. Read more

Perhaps nothing reveals this country’s kidnapping dread better than one product now on offer from a Mexican company: a tiny transmitter that is implanted under the skin to beam the person’s whereabouts to a satellite. Read more

Tens of thousands of people across Mexico took to the streets Saturday to air their anger and frustration over the nation’s intensifying crime wave and to demand government action. Read more

The sickening discovery this week of 11 headless bodies heaped like broken dolls near the colonial city of Merida underscored a bitter lesson for Mexico: The battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no boundaries. Read more