It started with a phone call to a men’s clothing store in the heart of Mexico City’s historic center. “I need you to put ...

García Harfuch has presented a police and intelligence initiative targeting the criminal charges imposed on both large and small businesses ...

In Mexico, extortion is a booming offshoot of drug war ... But that’s not the full extent of the problem. Experts say probably two-thirds of extortion cases aren’t reported to authorities.

Extortion has become a massive problem in Mexico, with powerful drug cartels exerting deep influence over swathes of the country. Keen to establish new revenue streams, these groups have been ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's fastest growing crime racket is being run out of the big house. All an inmate needs is a cell phone — smuggled in with a reported $5,000 bribe to guards — and a list ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - There has been a huge increase in the number of businesses reporting extortion attempts by drug cartels in Mexico, ... Such problems were reported by 18 percent in 2012, ...

Mexico City officials have unveiled a preliminary plan to tackle gentrification. The announcement comes a week after protests ...

The problem came to a head when the Femsa corporation, which operates Oxxo, Mexico’s largest chain of convenience stores, announced late last week that it was closing all of its 191 stores and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's problems of crime and violence are so deeply rooted and seemingly intractable that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's best efforts appear to be falling short ...

Extortion has become a massive problem in Mexico, ... Heath said the problem of extortion in the Mexican economy now had to be viewed as "structural," which "makes it difficult to achieve our ...