Forensics tests in Mexico have confirmed that 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the US border are those of girls and women, authorities said.

US agents helped make Joaquin Guzman the most powerful drug lord in the world. Aram Roston reports

A Mexican woman was so embarrassed about failing to graduate from college she made up a kidnapping tale to explain to her family why she failed to appear at the graduation ceremony.

COLIN STAFFORD-JOHNSON is sitting on the bank of the river Dodder, dressed in his camouflaged ‘eejit-suit’ and holding a branch in his hand.

Susana Chavez, a 36-year-old poet and activist who adopted the slogan Not One More Death, was found strangled, mutilated and dumped on a street in the Mexican border city of Juarez, infamous for a series of murders of women – even before drug cartels made it one of the most violent places in the world.

A NEWSPAPER’S stunning, front-page editorial of seeming surrender to drug capos has set off a national debate from the presidential palace to Mexico’s equivalent of the water cooler – its ubiquitous town squares.

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.

A MEXICAN citizen who allegedly confessed to killing at least 10 women in the violent border city of Juarez is back home in his country to face justice.

Jennifer Lopez will receive an award for her work as producer and star of a film examining the continuing murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town, Amnesty International said today.

More than a dozen Mexican policemen have been arrested following the killings of at least 11 people, whose bodies were found buried in the garden of a drug gang’s safe house.