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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) VVC EXPLORATION CORPORATION (TSX VENTURE: VVC)(FRANKFURT: V7S)(BERLIN: BBSE) ("VVC" or the "Company") announces the start of diamond drilling on the Santa Cristina Property (the "Property"), located in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, approximately 60 km to the south of Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua State, in northern Durango...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Police have found the bodies of seven young men who were beaten or shot to death in the state of Durango in northern Mexico.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Mexico City - Eleven people were found dead Tuesday in separate, apparent drug-related attacks in the Mexican states of Durango and Sinaloa, police said. Seven people, between the ages of 25 and 30 years, were found dead early Tuesday in the municipa...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Mexico City - A clash between hundreds of federal forces and alleged drug traffickers left three dead including a police officer in the city of Durango in northern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. General Moises Melo, of the Tenth Military Zone, s...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) VVC EXPLORATION CORPORATION (TSX VENTURE: VVC)(FRANKFURT: V7S)(BERLIN: V7S) ("VVC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has optioned the 498.5 hectare Santa Cristina property (the "Property"), located in the foothills of the Sierra Madre gold trend, approximately 60 km to the south of Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua State, in northern...
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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Barrón had recently written a series of articles about the dismissal of 300 local police officers for corruption. He regularly covered drug trafficking, which entailed significant risks.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
DURANGO, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug gangs have forced open a bloody new front in Mexico's drugs war, extending their battles over smuggling routes into a formerly quiet northwestern state and further stretching the army.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES LIMITED (TSX: GPR) is pleased to announce that continuing development along the Recompensa vein, at the Topia Mine, Durango, Mexico, is yielding exceptionally high gold grades in addition to silver, lead and zinc. The Recompensa Mine was one of many of the Topia mines that were reopened in January under new mining contracts. It contributed...
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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
Reporters Without Borders calls for an immediate investigation into a newspaper columnist's murder on 3 May in the northern state of Durango. The investigation should also shed light on the failure of the local judicial authorities to investigate the threats he had received, the organisation said.