[The world's largest enchilada (on right) — 230 feet long and weighing 3,121 pounds — was made yesterday in Mexico City during the National Enchilada Fair, and was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records. Image via AP]

Mexican officials say they've "suspended" the investigation into Texas jet-skier David Hartley's alleged murder by pirates, but they hope to re-start it "in a few days." Decapitating criminal investigators really gets results. [CBS, photo via AP]

California is all set to vote on Proposition 19, which would legalize possession and sale of small amounts of marijuana. Added bonus for free enterprise advocates: a new report says the Mexican drug cartels would barely even notice it.

Remember the woman who told police that her husband was killed by pirates while jet-skiing in a lake on the Mexican border? And the Mexican police essentially said they didn't believe her? Well, a severed head just turned up.

A Mexican official investigating the alleged Falcon Lake, Texas pirate attack has reportedly been decapitated.

How's the investigation into last week's Mexican pirate jet-ski shooting going? It's not.

It was all theoretical when the pirates were patrolling the waters off of Somalia. But it's getting too close for comfort: now, there are Mexican pirates. Right on the border. Shooting at American jet-skis.

A thousand people were feared dead in yesterday's Mexican mudslide. Actual toll: 11 missing.

As many as 1,000 people in Mexico may have been buried in a mudslide.

And another drug lord goes down: Mexican authorities have arrested Margarito Soto Reyes, also known as "The Tiger," in Guadalajara with eight other alleged members of the Sinaloa cartel. [BBC; pic: AP]

A Mexican journalist, Jorge Luis Aguirre has been granted asylum in the U.S. after receiving death threats from drug cartels.

If you're ever feeling depressed about the decline of newspapers in America, just be thankful you're not in Mexico—where a newspaper's been reduced to politely asking drug cartels for editorial guidance, in exchange for not being murdered.

For the second time in two weeks, a leader from the Beltrán Leyva cartel has been arrested in Mexico. Sergio Villarreal, "El Grande," was caught in a power struggle with "La Barbie" for control of Beltrán Leyva.

Before dawn yesterday, 85 inmates using ladders scaled the walls of a prison in Reynosa, Mexico along the border with Texas, allegedly with the help of guards. Most of the escapees are thought to be cartel gunmen. [Houston Chronicle]

Tropical storm Hermine has made landfall in "extreme northeastern Mexico."

Notorious drug kingpin Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a leader in the Beltran Leyva cartel, was captured in Mexico on Monday.

In your murderous Monday media column: Mexico's reporters have a terrible job, the NYT Co. tests its paywall on a small stage, nobody trusts TV news, and James Kilpatrick dies.

You know why certain people are scared of Mexican immigrants? Because they might bring their gay marriage-tolerating with them! Yes, Mexico, or at least the Mexican Supreme Court, is more progressive than the States when it comes to gay marriage.

Yesterday BP announced that the cement plug in the leaking Gulf oil well was a success, and that a relief well would be finished later this month. The company also said the spill has so far cost it $6.1 billion.

The U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has been closed for a "security review." In 18 months, over 4,000 people have been killed in the city.