Authorities say a local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” has been gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure.

A car bomb left outside a police station in western Mexico has wounded three people.

Mexico’s new president has laid out a plan to combat drug cartel violence.

Mexico's federal archaeology agency is accusing the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating the country’s famous mummified 19th century bodies.

Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City’s central square as the country’s leading presidential candidates officially kicked off their campaigns.

Survivors of a massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned later with gunmen who killed 11 and wounded 14.

The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico's “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of their own: the cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers, and are now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.

Soldiers stand guard near the site where mass graves were found in Salvatierra, Guanajuato state, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A Mexican search group said Wednesday it has found 59 bodies in a series of clandestine burial pits in the north-central state of Guanajuato, and that more could still be excavated. (AP Photo/Mario Armas)SALVATIERRA – Search teams dug for more remains Thursday at a site in central Mexico where 59 bodies have already been found in clandestine graves over the past week in an area known as a cartel battleground. She said searchers have found indications that more bodies may be buried there, so the search continues. The goal is to recover the bodies, identify them and return the remains to their families, she said.

(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)MEXICO CITY – In the central Mexico state of Guanajuato, the color of the meth or the markings on the package in an addict’s pocket may determine whether he lives or dies. The Jalisco Cartel sells crystal-clear meth at $2.30 per dose. The home gang, Santa Rosa de Lima, sells cheaper blue-tinged methamphetamines for $1.40. Guanajuato, Mexico’s sixth most populous state, saw over 3,400 homicides in the first nine months of this year, more than any other state in the country. Saucedo said the Sinaloa gang was reluctant to back Santa Rosa, whose leaders were seen as unsophisticated and untrustworthy gangsters.

MEXICO CITY President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador is traveling to three of Mexicos most violent states this week to counter what many call a hands-off strategy toward drug cartels that has exacerbated tensions with state governors. I am going to these states because they have the toughest problems with violence and especially homicides, Lpez Obrador said. While Lpez Obrador points toward the opposition governors for the violence, the opposition cites his hands-off policy with cartels. But it may have become the epicenter of a much larger, titanic struggle between Mexicos two most powerful cartels: Jalisco and Sinaloa. Jalisco state has accounted for about 29% of all bodies pulled from clandestine burial pits since the start of Lpez Obradors administration.

Gunmen burst into the drug rehabilitation center and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. Police in Guanajuato state said Wednesday's attack occurred at a modest two-story house on the outskirts of Irapuato. Apparently the attackers shot every male at the rehab center, letting only the females go. No motive was given in the rehab center attack, but Gov. It was one of the deadliest attacks on a rehab center since 19 people were killed in 2010 in Chihuahua city in northern Mexico.