The morgue in Tijuana is filling up. The 1,021 bodies admitted in the first four months of 2008 is double the number of last year.
Meanwhile the national murder rate has increased by 47 per cent.
“It went on for about three hours without stopping. There were about 300 police and later the army came. There were [...]

Photograph: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
While the killing of two police officers in Trench Town this Labour Day weekend was shocking, in Mexico gunmen found an even more senior target and now it’s thought to be an inside job.
Investigators believe that the assassination of Édgar Millán Gómez, the acting chief of the federal [...]