Halloween is a special time when drunken adults dressed as horrifying clowns start crashing their cars and freaking people out down at the McDonald's. Over the next 10 days, hundreds of scary clowns will be arrested nationwide for all kinds of terrible behavior. When a person decides to be an evil clown for Halloween, they are basically planning on being arrested.

The United States has always liked to keep a close eye on its neighbor to the south, making sure that things stay pretty comfortable for U.S. interests. But while former Mexican President Felipe Calderon enjoyed an especially close relationship to the United States, it wasn't enough to stop the NSA from hacking his email account and spying on his whole administration.

There's nothing scarier than a clown. Except, possibly, a clown who is pointing a gun at you. Which was the unfortunate (for him) last image seen by former drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix as he was vacationing with family in Baja California this week.

Holy hell, this is harrowing. This past weekend, Delorean, an electronic-pop act from Barcelona, performed at the Mexican installment of the Mutek Festival and on Monday morning, they were still at their Mexico City hotel when an emergency call came in, urging them to vacate the premises due to a shootout. They complied—and were taken hostage.

Warning: This post contains a graphic photo of a woman giving birth which some may find disturbing.

At least 80 people were killed and thousands of tourists were left stranded in Acapulco and southwest Mexico Thursday after two tropical storms struck the area, triggering landslides and turning the tourist destination into a crocodile-plagued hellhole.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto told reporters Wednesday that at least 58 people are unaccounted for after a mudslide buried homes in a town near Acapulco. Deadly storms in Mexico, including now-Hurricane Manuel, have already killed 80 people, damaged 35,000 homes, and stranded 40,000 tourists this week.

When this young Romeo wannabe promised his girlfriend that his gallantry would get her wet, this is probably not what she had in mind.

At Ciudad Juárez, Mexico's assembly and garment factories, known locally as maquiladoras, murders, rapes, and kidnappings have long plagued the factories' thousands of female workers. In 2011 the New Statesmen reported that local Juárez paper El Diario put the total number of murdered women at 878, but residents say the actual number is in the thousands. Now a woman calling herself the "Huntress of Bus Drivers" is out to do her part to curb the violence.

Meet Rosalio Reta, an inmate in Texas who killed over 30 people during his time as a hitman—starting at age 13—for Miguel Treviño, the just-captured boss of the brutal Zeta drug cartel.

A 51-year-old California man was arrested in June for attempting to smuggle $128,547 in his socks as he returned to the U.S. after a brief trip to Mexico.

At 3:45 on Monday morning, Mexican marines stopped a car heading west from Nuevo Laredo. Inside was $2 million, nine weapons, 500 rounds of ammunition—and this man, "40," the leader of the Zetas drug cartel.

A man who has been legally dead since 2010 was elected mayor of a small Mexican town on Sunday.

Bad news, patriots: According to a new UN study, America is no longer the most obese country among more populous nations. That honor, which, according to another study, Americans held as recently as March, now belongs to Mexico.

The ATF's failed "Fast and Furious" operation has reared its ugly head again, this time in the form of a high-powered rifle used to murder a police chief in Jalisco, a state deep in central Mexico.

A mother of seven and grandmother to two was arrested and jailed in Mexico for allegedly attempting to smuggle 12 pounds of marijuana into the United States. Her husband has accused Mexican authorities of imprisoning her only after the couple refused to pay a $5,000 bribe.

Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, died in Mexico city on Wednesday night, apparently after being beaten during a robbery.

Mexico may no longer be one of the world's top ten tourism destinations. Hmm.

A crude but powerful homemade cannon consisting of a plastic pipe, a metal tank, and an old car engine, was confiscated by authorities in the Mexican border city of Mexicali last week.

The Carnival cruise line disabled by a fire and left floating for days, stinking of shit and piss, has reached a new level of horror as the towline taking it to Alabama—where its passengers would, finally, be able to disembark and go home—broke, leaving them floating once more in the Gulf of Mexico, 30 miles from shore. It's been fixed, and the ship is moving again—but as these images show, it's still not pretty.