Watch as two girls easily climb to the top of the wall separating the U.S. from Mexico in only 18 seconds in their first try.

Mexico's La Familia drug cartel has declared a one-month truce to prove they're actually the good guys.

A 28-year-old police officer in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe, Erika Gándara, has been missing since gunmen stormed her home last Thursday. She was the last remaining cop in the town after her colleagues had resigned or been killed.

A "criminal gang" trying to steal fuel punctured an oil pipeline in Mexico on Sunday, sending rivers of oil through the streets of the small village of San Martin Texmelucan and causing a massive explosion that killed 28 people. [BBC]

The ability to drive a public bus while reading a Kindle is a gift. And now, here's a bus driver from Omnibus De México labeling some CD's, writing on a clipboard, and not paying much attention while driving pretty fast.

Over the last four years, 30,000 people have died in Mexico's drug war. Damn.

A remote-controlled drone owned and operated by the government of Mexico crashed "in someone's backyard" near El Paso last week. What was it doing there?

Another mass grave has been found in Mexico, this one with 18 bodies—likely the work of a drug cartel.

Turistas: don't let bad PR stop you from visiting beautiful Mexico this holiday season! Just remember to pick up your Mexican army escort at the border, and "to move in convoys and only during daylight hours." ¡Feliz Navidad! [LAT]

This week, the Mexican government auctioned off a cache of narco-bling seized from drug lords in Mexico City. If you were in the market for a $25,000 rosary, this was the place to be! Here are the craziest pieces:

Former Survivor and Pimp My Ride producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was arrested by U.S. Marshals last night outside his California home in connection to the April murder of his wife, Monica Beresford-Redman, in Cancun, Mexico. He denies the charge. [Hollywood Reporter]

A half-ton bull flew into the crowd at the Plaza de Toros bullfighting ring in Mexico City on Sunday, leaping over the barrier and landing on top of a picador. The bull returned to the ring and was promptly killed.

At least seven people died when a natural gas buildup caused an explosion at a Mexican hotel.

Mexican drug cartels are allegedly hiring hitmen as young as 12 years old to kill rivals and, failing that, random people — "maybe a construction worker or a taxi driver" — one kid, "El Ponchis" says on a cartel video.

Eighteen tourists who disappeared in September were found in a mass grave in Acapulco, Mexico. The tourists, mostly mechanics who vacationed together every year, seem to have been killed as revenge against a cartel based in their home state, Michoacan.

A California farmers market vendor has been busted for selling Mexican vegetables as his own, "locally grown" produce and L.A. locavores are pissed off at these "dishonest farmers." Do you know where your certified organic produce actually comes from? [LAT]

At a clown convention in Mexico City, 700 clowns attempted to break the world record for laughter. They failed, probably because they turned and looked at each other, and the hellish scene of 700 cackling clowns scared them into silence.

Mexican authorities yesterday flew in journalists, dignitaries and college kids to watch the burning of 134 tons of marijuana — much of which was seized earlier this week near Tijuana. It was a statement to drug cartels, or something.

20-year-old criminology student Marisol Valles became the bravest college girl in North America when she stepped up to be police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico's second-most violent city after Juarez. Nobody else would accept the position.

Mexican authorities seized 105 tons of marijuana on Monday. That's more than 95 million joints.