Category: Mexico

Mexico Searches for 3 Missing US Sailors With Plane, Ships

MEXICO CITY—The Mexican Navy said Monday it is using ships and a plane to search for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat off Mexico’s northern Pacific coast. The Navy said it is using four patrol boats and a twin-engine prop airplane to search the area, but apparently no sign of the missing…


Gunmen Storm Mexican Resort, Kill 7, Including Child

MEXICO CITY—Armed men on Saturday killed a child and six others after storming a resort in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said, in a region increasingly plagued by drug cartel violence. Footage widely shared on social media showed the aftermath of the attack in a palm-studded resort in the small town of Cortazar,…


3 Americans Sailing to San Diego from Mexico Reported Missing

SAN DIEGO—A search was continuing April 15 for three American citizens who were sailing from Mexico to San Diego but have been missing for more than a week. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien, and William Gross left Mazatlán, Mexico, on April 4 on the sailing vessel Ocean Bound, a 44-foot La Fitte, and had planned to…


Coast Guard Searching for 3 American Sailors Missing Off the Coast of Mexico

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Mexican Navy are searching for three American sailors who have been missing for over a week off the coast of Mexico. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien, and William Gross were sailing aboard the “Ocean Bound”—a 44-foot Lafitte sailboat—when they departed Mazatlan, Mexico, on April 4, according to the U.S. Coast…


US Will Not Prosecute Suspect in US Tourist Death in Mexico

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—U.S. officials in North Carolina will not federally prosecute the person suspected of killing a Charlotte-area woman vacationing in Mexico last year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Federal prosecutors say they have presented the findings of their investigation to the family of Shanquella Robinson, who was seen being beaten in a viral…


Feds Won’t Pursue Charges in Death of US Tourist at Mexican Villa

Prosecutors will not pursue federal charges in connection to the death of a 25-year-old American woman who died last year while vacationing with friends in Mexico, officials announced on Wednesday. In a statement released on April 12, the U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) met with the family of Shanquella…


Deep Dive: The Brutal War Between Mexico’s Drug Cartels

The war between Mexico’s drug cartels has reached new heights as older major cartels have fragmented, increasing competition between the splinter groups and leading to more grisly acts of violence, even against Americans. The most recent example of the brutality by Mexican drug cartels against U.S. citizens is that of the four kidnapped Americans in…


Mexico’s Gun Problem Not California’s, nor America’s

Commentary Aren’t American officials supposed to side with Americans? One would think so. Not California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the attorneys general from 16 other states and Washington, D.C. They filed an amicus brief in an appeal to a case brought by the country of Mexico against 10 U.S. gun manufacturers. The case is…


US Man Found Dead on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula

MEXICO CITY—The body of a U.S. man who had been missing since Feb. 11 has been found in a clandestine burial pit on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, prosecutors in the state of Baja California Sur said Wednesday. State prosecutor Daniel de la Rosa said a local man and his sister had been arrested in connection…


Mexico Faces Illegal Immigration Crisis Along Its Southern Border

Mexico shares a problem with the United States as it deals with an illegal immigration crisis along its southern border with Guatemala. Thousands of immigrants continue to make the dangerous journey through Guatemalan jungles and cross illegally into Mexico, often using coyotes, also known as human traffickers, to make the trek. “I come from a…