Gang dispute believed to be behind blaze at venue in Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos

An attack on a bar in the Mexican city of Coatzacoalcos has left 23 people dead and 13 injured.

The assailants started a fire that ripped through the bar, killing eight women and 15 men. There was no immediate information on the condition of the injured.

Shocking act in Tepexco is just one example of wider malady blighting countries from Bolivia to Brazil

Socorro Muñoz fled indoors as the laurel-lined square outside her shop became a public execution ground one sunny afternoon in early August.

“I didn’t want to see,” the 62-year-old storekeeper explained as she relived the moment a tide of Latin American lynchings swept into Tepexco’s picturesque Plaza de la Constitución, leaving seven alleged kidnappers dead.

A journalist shot in his own home despite being offered official protection reflects Mexico’s struggle with rising violence

An investigation has been launched into the death of a reporter in the Mexican state of Veracruz after he became the third journalist to be murdered in a week.

As the country grapples with a record murder rate, Mexican officials in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz where Jorge Ruiz Vazquez worked for the Grafico de Xalapa newspaper in Veracruz’s capital, said the investigation would examine why procedures to protect him failed.