Michael Weissenstein reports from Mexico City on the arrest of drugs cartel baron Morales

Mexico is making progress in its fight against powerful drug cartels and they are becoming weaker as the crime bosses are killed or jailed, the interior minister said.

Senior Mexican drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano has apparently been killed in a fight with marines in the northern border state of Coahuila, the navy said.

Mexico says it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban”.

The dismembered bodies of 17 men were found on a farm in central Mexico, in an area disputed by violent drug cartels.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, was arrested by Mexican marines and paraded before the public.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, has been arrested by Mexican marines, the navy said.

Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the “inhuman” violence plaguing the country.

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found dumped on a northern Mexico highway in what appeared to be the latest carnage in the escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels.

Thirty-one prisoners have been killed in a fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives and clubs in a jail in northern Mexico, authorities say.

Five gunmen sprayed three passenger buses with bullets in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz, killing seven passengers before being chased down and shot dead by soldiers.

Mexican marines have captured a founding member of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, the navy announced.

The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found in the heart of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between Mexican drug cartels may have come to the picturesque western city which hosted last month’s Pan American Games.

Mexican authorities have fired nearly 1,000 police officers to weed out corruption from the violence-ravaged Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

POLICE found a woman’s decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site.

Police found a woman’s decapitated body in a Mexican border city, alongside a hand-written sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site.

A STATE police officer has been arrested in connection with last week’s arson fire at a casino that killed 52 people in northern Mexico.

Authorities in northern Mexico say they are searching for another seven suspects over an arson attack at a casino that killed 52 people.

FIVE men have been arrested in connection with an arson attack last week on a casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey that killed 52 people, said state governor of Nuevo Leon Rodrigo Medina.

Workers were today continuing to pull bodies out of a burned casino in northern Mexico, where gunmen spread petrol and ignited a fire which trapped and killed at least 53 patrons and employees.

Mexico’s federal security spokesman today rejected a state prosecutor’s call for drug cartels to join in some kind of truce, saying the gangs must be arrested and disbanded instead.

A gun battle between rival drug gangs in western Mexico has left 29 men dead.

Attackers killed at least 29 people – decapitating most of the victims – on a ranch in a part of northern Guatemala plagued by drug cartels.

MEXICAN investigators have found a total of 116 bodies in pits near the US border, 28 more than previously reported, Attorney General Marisela Morales revealed.

MEXICAN drug gangs branching out into new criminal activity are earning a steady stream of cash from the mass kidnapping of migrants, making the already arduous journey to the United States even more lethal.

ALTHOUGH we should learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others, we persist in following the failed tactics of the US in relation to drugs. Our drug problems, which began in Dublin, have gradually spread throughout the country.

Soldiers killed 25 suspected cartel members in a raid and gun battle near the US border that has seen a surge in drug gang violence.

MEXICAN authorities yesterday began identifying 72 suspected migrants believed murdered for refusing to become hitmen for a drug cartel.

The governor of a Mexican border state will give state police officers a 20% pay rise in an effort to deter them from joining drug cartels.

AN anonymous, twenty-something blogger is giving Mexicans what they can’t get elsewhere – an inside view of their country’s raging drug war.

GUARDS and officials at a prison in northern Mexico let inmates out, lent them guns and allowed them to use official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people, prosecutors claimed.

A drugs-war gun battle erupted on the main coast boulevard in the heart of Mexico’s tourist mecca Acapulco, killing six people, including an eight-year-old girl and her mother.

Gunmen murdered a Mexican state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons at their home.