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Mexican authorities confirmed a ghastly find outside of the Nuevo Laredo City Hall, where 14 bodies were found inside a parked vehicle Tuesday morning. About 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, the bodies were found stuffed inside 10 garbage bags, according to information released by the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office, known as the PGJE. The vehicle, which was described as a green 1996 Voyager minivan with no license plates, was parked in front of City Hall. The bodies’ identities were not released, but the men were described as being between the ages of 30 and 35. The slayings are attributed to fighting between...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Friday that the violence-plagued Gulf coast state of Veracruz had been left in the hands of the brutal Zetas drug cartel. Calderon has complained in the past that previous governments allowed Mexico's cartel problems to grow and didn't do enough to stop them. But he hasn't previously suggested a state was largely turned over to traffickers. In comments to a meeting of crime victims' groups in Mexico City, Calderon did not say specifically who he thought was responsible. "I believe Veracruz was left in the hands of the Zetas, I don't know...

VERACRUZ, MEXICO - A group of self-confessed Zeta killers is behind bars in Mexico. They were arrested after a series of roundups in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The Mexican government hopes to send out a clear message with the arrests: there's no excuse for murder. The Mata-Zetas, or Zeta Killers, first made the announcement last month online. They pledged to help execute members of the Zeta Cartel. Mexican officials believe the men are associated with the Cartel de Jalisco-Nueva Generacion. They are believed to be behind the execution of 35 people in Veracruz last week. Members of the Mexican...

Mexican security forces have found 32 bodies at several locations around the eastern city of Veracruz, according to the authorities, only two weeks after 35 corpses were dumped on a busy street in the Atlantic port. Just two days after the Mexican government unveiled a plan to lay down the law in the state of the same name, police and marines found the bodies in three different areas of the city, the navy said in a statement on Thursday.

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government said it is investigating videos posted on the Internet in which a gang of masked men vow to exterminate the violent Zetas drug cartel, and said it opposes such vigilante methods. At least two videos have been posted by a group believed linked to the powerful Sinaloa cartel that calls itself the "Mata Zetas," or "Zetas Killers." The Zetas were founded by deserters from an elite military unit and are known for their brutality. In the most recent video, posted over the weekend, the group says it is attacking the Zetas because people are...