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Nov 3 2009
Have you any idea why we are searching your vehicle? Do you know why your American visa has been canceled? Do you understand why you’re being fined $15,264 U.S. dollars? Let me tell you: It’s because you are STUPID! Customs officials...
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Nov 3 2009
Cemeteries in Mexico are crowded with families marking the Day of the Dead holiday. One of the largest gatherings is right on the border. In Juarez, murders in that city now top 2,000. On Dia de los Muertos, entire families tidy up tombs and take...
Nov 3 2009
Black-clad widows, mothers and orphaned children laid plastic flowers at the graves of drug war victims on Monday as Mexicans in one of the world’s most violent cities celebrated the Day of the Dead.
Nov 3 2009
The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic culture of fast money, drug abuse and murder is creating a “lost...
Nov 3 2009
Blinded by death, shrouded in secrecy and driven by recklessness could be used to describe the Mexican drug cartels – however, these terms are used to describe our own government agency, ICE.
Nov 3 2009
Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record for bilateral cooperation between the two countries.”
Nov 1 2009
Some 150 indigenous farmers took over a UN office in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas to demand the release of three jailed leaders, their group said Saturday.
Nov 1 2009
Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.
Nov 1 2009
Mexican authorities say they have detained a large-scale drug trafficker and also broken up a ring that allegedly laundered around $37 million for a drug cartel.
Nov 1 2009
Mexico’s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Jeffrey Max Jones, has resigned after causing a stir by announcing Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from their drug farming narco counterparts. Farmers “should follow the example of drug...
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