Drug cartel member Mario Nunez has been arrested in connection with 350 murders in Durango state, Mexico.

Out of the 2 million titles available as of Thursday in Mexico are some 70,000 Spanish-language titles – 1,500 of which are free for Kindle users.

A program begun in 2011 under the direction of the Pentagon and approved by former Mexican President Felipe Calderón saw manned spy planes from the US enter Mexican airspace to identify, track and aid in the apprehension of drug cartels.

The thirteenth body found in a mass grave east of Mexico City belonged to Francisco Daniel Menchaca Bazán, who participated in the scheme to bring the other twelve victims to the bar where they were kidnapped and eventually murdered.

Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa said that the deaths were caused by mudslides in three towns in the eastern Mexican state.

Authorities in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco say the cargo train carrying at least 250 northward bound Honduran migrants derailed on Sunday because spikes and plates on the rails had been “sacked” by thieves. At least six people died in the accident and 22 were wounded.

Protesters from two teachers’ groups descended on Mexico City last week, blocking lawmakers’ access to a congressional building and shutting down the highway to the airport. A large majority of the capital’s residents said in a telephone survey carried out by newspaper El Universal that they don’t think the protests should be permitted and that authorities have mishandled them.

A cargo train known as 'La Bestia' derailed killing at least five people.

As many as 4,000 teachers flooded main arteries in Mexico’s capital on Friday, causing “roadway chaos” as they protested a new education reform. Watch video of protesting teachers on Wednesday as they attempt to enter the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City.

As mass grave holding 12 bodies was found in mexico City. Authorities believe the bodies belong to 12 people kidnapped from a bar in May.

Pemex, Mexico’s state oil company, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that seven victims of an ammonia leak at the Antonio Dovalí Jaime refinery in the state of Oaxaca have now died. At least three others are still being treated for injuries suffered when a leaky pipeline caused an explosion, and some forty others suffered from inhaling the ammonia.

Brazil officials ordered an investigation in a Heinz factory in Mexico after a batch of their ketchup failed sanitary tests.

Mexico’s capital was hit by an earthquake of considerable force on Wednesday morning, registering at 6.1 on the Richter scale, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake was centered on the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, near the resort of Acapulco. As of yet there are no reports of injuries or damages.

Shotguns, t-shirts and radios are being distributed among women in one Mexican village which has seen itself besieged by organized crime. The women, who have banded together in an attempt to help safeguard their community, make up what many are calling the first all-women community self-defense group in Mexico.

Despite drug violence that has overwhelmed numerous states in Mexico, especially in those near the border with the United States, Mexicans seeking asylum based on a claim of fear of persecution back home are unlikely to be awarded it. Even as asylum requests along the US-Mexico border have more than doubled, the Department of Homeland Security says there hasn’t been a marked increase in applications from Mexican citizens.

As Mexican children headed back to school on Monday, a list of the 117 errors found in some 235 million elementary school textbooks was handed out to teachers, who will have to manually correct them. The errors ranged from misspellings and forgotten or misplaced accents to one case in which a city was identified as being located in the wrong state.

Violent weekend leaves 17 dead in Michocan in surrounding areas.

One of Mexico's most feared gang of kidnappers used reggaeton and banda music to torture their victims.

Civilian self-defense militias in Michoacan are now disarmed, says the governor of the Mexican state. But in a June video, one militia member said the reasons why the group formed in his town had a lot to do with the inability of the government to keep them safe.

Sandra Ávila Beltrán, an alleged drug dealer known as the "Queen of the Pacific," is being deported back to México today, after serving 70 months in prison.

Murillo Karam says he's aggrieved by the case and adds that he didn't understand how the cartel leader was freed.

No injuries were reported in Mexico's most recent quake.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is proposing one of the most dramatic reforms in Mexican politics in years. Here's five things to know about his plan.

Guadalajara drug cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero left prison after 28 years behind bars last week. Now, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, an accomplice in the 1985 murder of a DEA agent for which Caro Quintero was convicted, could also walk free.

4-year-old Mexican boy murdered for not knowing how to count.

The founder of the Guadalajara drug cartel and one of the most important figures in Mexico’s decades-old war on drugs will walk out of the Puente Grande penitentiary near Guadalajara.

El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel tried to buy a Stinger anti-aircraft and several anti-tank weapons from undercover agents in the US in 2010, according to a Justice Department report.

Russian photographer Anatoly Beloshchin captured photos of a channel which resembles a river eighty feet below the surface of Cenote Angelita in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The Mexican president will propose 3 amendments to the constitution which would open state-owned oil company Pemex to private investment.

Mexico’s state oil company Pemex is looking to invest in refining equipment belonging to US oil companies to boost its efficiency. Meanwhile, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is preparing to present a plan to Congress this week which would open the company to private investment – a plan which promises to shake the bedrock of the Mexican political scene.