The phrase “Mexican standoff” dates all the way back to 1876, when it first appeared in print in an issue of the NYC newspaper Sunday Mercury.The phrase was coined by writer F. Harvey Smith ...

Federal authorities battled with suspected drug cartel members in a Western state, a prolonged shoot-out left roads blocked and five people, including a baby, dead. The tense standoff between ...

In the style of a classic spaghetti Western—creator Vince Gilligan has admitted that one of the ... Perhaps no one did more to popularize the so-called “Mexican standoff” than John Woo.

Federal police and soldiers stand guard in Apatzingan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. Federal forces struggled to bring order to western Mexico as vigilantes battled a drug cartel.

A Mexican court has sentenced 10 men to 141-year terms each for their involvement in a ranch in the western Mexican state of ...

Canadian Miner Is ‘Optimistic’ of End Ahead in Mexican Standoff Americas Gold and Silver mine has been closed for 14 months CEO says he’ll press his case with Mexico ministers on Tuesday ...

Everyone Must Die: A Western Standoff is a puzzle game set in the Wild West that's inspired by the chaos and uncertainty found in Mexican standoffs.

The Mexican presidential election was close. Real close. So close, in fact, that in the aftermath many in the media suggested that a replay of the 2000 US presidential election was in the making ...

APATZINGAN, Mexico — Federal forces and heavily armed vigilantes are warily watching each other in a violence-wracked farming area of western Mexico after one deadly clash and a failure by ...