February 21 , 1794Jalapa, Mexico June 21, 1876 Mexico City, Mexico Antonio López de Santa Anna, in full Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón (born February 21 , 1794 Jalapa, Mexico died June 21 , 1876 Mexico City) army officer and statesman who was the storm centre of Mexico's politics during such events as the Texas Revolution (1835 36) and the Mexican-American War (1846 48).
MEXICO CITY — An army general and soldiers under his command sent to fight drug cartels in a border town have been charged in military court with carrying out killings, torture, drug dealing and other crimes, government officials confirmed this week.
Sam Dillon (NYT) MEXICO: GENERAL JAILED -- An army general who was made a high-ranking security official in Chiapas state was sentenced to eight years in jail for criminal negligence in the December 1997 killing of 45 Indian villagers.
Clifford Krauss (NYT) MEXICO: CHIAPAS PULLOUT -- The army handed over a military base in Chiapas State to the newly elected governor, a symbolic withdrawal ordered by President Vicente Fox to bring Zapatista rebels to the bargaining table after nearly seven years of conflict.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army said Sunday that it had captured the head of security for the Sinaloa drug cartel's leader, Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo, one of the world's richest and most wanted men.
MEXICO CITY — President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits.
IN OTHER GAMES NEW MEXICO STATE (1-4) coastod to its first triumph, 42-23, ovisitingting ARMY (0-5).
Larry Rohter (NYT) MEXICO: DRUG AGENTS SLAIN In the stepup of a drug war at the United States border, three drug agents, including an army captain, were killed in Tijuana, said the head of Mexico's anti-drug operations.
The regime's conservative pillars will tend to support him: private enterprise, unions, the army, and very importantly Mexico's television stations.But Mr Labastida's strength is also his weakness.
MEXICO CITY — Just over a month after he took charge of the police force in one of the country's most violent cities, Manuel Farfán, a former brigadier general in the army, died Thursday in a torrent of bullets.
