Mexico crime articles
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Murder of three surfers highlights Mexico’s unsolved crime crisis
Communities across Mexico have rallied to demand a stop to the violence impacting both tourists and locals, after three Australian and American surfers were killed.
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Tourist killings expose fragmentation of organised crime at the heart of Mexico’s extraordinary violence
The murders of two Australians and an American in Baja California show the shifting and uncertain fault lines of risk in a country where crime and the state often overlapThe killings of the Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their American friend, Jack Carter Rhoad, have highlighted the shifting and uncertain fault lines of risk in Mexico, which is simultaneously a major tourism destination and a country with hotspots of extraordinary violence.The trio, who in April went missing in...
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4 new ballistics testing machines coming to New Mexico to help solve gun crimes
(The Center Square) - The technology used by the Albuquerque Police Department to crack high-profile gun cases will soon be available statewide. The federal government will fund four new specialty machines to help New Mexico law enforcement officials track shell casings found at crime scenes. “I think probably the best example of the impact that NIBIN has had, and sort of shell casing analysis has had, is the Solomon Peña case, for example,” New Mexico Attorney...