Walls and Floors Covered in Blood

Walls stained with blood: Inside the Mexican house where druglords killed 16 teens at a high school birthday party.

Soldiers stand inside a blood-stained room in Ciudad Juarez after a group of suspected drug hitmen burst into a birthday party, killing 16 teenagers.

A gang of suspected drug hitmen burst into a high school birthday party, opening fire and killing 16 teenagers in Ciudad Juarez in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Gunmen jumped out of several 4x4s and stormed the house where students were celebrating the birthday of a classmate.

They opened fire on the party in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, in what is believed to be a mistaken drugs hit.

Crime scene: Bodies lay on the street outside and pools of blood collected by nearby parked cars. 

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Who Answers to the Juarez Violence?

The Mexican Senate requests Galván and García Luna to answer to the massacre in Juarez.

The senators also call the Attorney General of the Republic, Arturo Chavez to explain what is the strategy for fighting organized crime after the massacre that occurred in Ciudad Juárez over the weekend.

Mexico City - The Standing Committee of the Congress observed a minute of silence in memory of the teenagers who were killed Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, by a group of armed commandos during a reunion to celebrate a football victory.

In response to the recent massacre in Ciudad Juárez and the deaths in Torreon, the Senate requested the immediate appearance before the committees of the Secretary of Defense General Guillermo Galván Galván, Navy Adm. Francisco Mariano Saynez Mendoza, the head of the PGR Arturo Chavez and Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, to explain the strategy in the fight against organized crime and to provide an assessment of their results.

The points of agreement that were approved but rejected by the political party PAN, were made by Senator Arturo Escobar, of the PVEM and the coordinator of the PT Ricardo Monreal.

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Teens Among 14 Killed at Juarez Party

It marks the first time students have been targeted.

Ciuadad Juarez, Chih - A gangland death squad killed at least 14 people, all but two of them high school students, and wounded as many as 14 others in an attack shortly after midnight Sunday in the bloody border city of Ciudad Juarez.

A squad of gunmen stormed a teenagers' party in a working-class neighborhood on the city's east side, a few minutes' drive from the city's police headquarters. The party was celebrating a championship soccer game between two high schools and one student's birthday.

While some of the attackers barricaded access to the residential street with their cars, others went room to room inside a small concrete house, firing into the crowd of some 60 partygoers, witnesses said. Some students escaped by jumping over garden walls or taking refuge in neighboring houses. Others were gunned down as they fled.

“They went directly into the house and started shooting,” an unnamed neighbor told El Diario, a Juarez newspaper. “Some people ran and they chased them down.”

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Mexican Police Find Headless Bodies

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- Mexican police on Saturday found two severed heads near blanket-wrapped bodies in a border city where 15 people have been killed in less than 24 hours.

The killings in Ciudad Juarez marked a resurgence in violence in the drug cartel-plagued city which had enjoyed a few days of relative calm.

The violence started Friday when a group of rifle-bearing attackers opened fire on a family in a truck, killing a man, a woman and injuring a 5-month-old baby.

A woman was later killed inside an ice cream parlor, a chase through the Galeana neighborhood left two dead, and a man was killed and a pregnant woman was injured in a spray of bullets in another part of town.

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Journalist Killed in Guerrero

The editor-in-chief of the El Sol de la Costa newspaper has been murdered in southern Mexico.

 Jorge Ochoa Martínez

Chilpancingo, Gro — Journalist Jorge Ochoa Martínez was killed from a single gunshot to the head, Ochoa Martínez is the editor of the weekly El Sol de la Costa in the municipality of Ayutla in the Costa Grande. The wave of violence related to organized crime continues in Guerrero where news media reported seven murders in the last few hours.

Police in Ayutla found the body while responding to a call about a "dead man inside an automobile" a short distance from city hall. The Secretariat of Public Security and Protection in the state reported that Ochoa Martinez was found Friday night in his car with a bullet to his head not long after having dinner in the restaurant one block from City Hall in Ayutla.

No arrests have been made and the motive for the killing has not been determined.

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Sicarios Captured Before they Could Kill

Federal Police captured hired assasins before they could kill.

Ciudad Juarez, Chih - The federal Public Security Secretariat reported that elements of the Federal Police today arrested two suspected sicarios of the organization called "La Línea", who confessed at the time of their arrest that they had orders to carry out an attack to abduct a Federal Prosecutor in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.

The detainees are:

Agustin Herrera Ruiz 34 years old, alias "El Martín" a native of Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua and Raúl Corpus Mireles 25 years old and a native of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua

They were in possession of the following items:

A long gun AK-47
A 9mm handgun
3 chargers
73 cartridges
A 2000 black truck black
A gray pickup truck
A cell phone

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Life of the Mexican Federal Police

The daily life of the forces of the federal police in Mexico.

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