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Oct 26 2009
A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested in 2007 after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mexican official told...
Oct 26 2009
When pressed about why Mexico is struggling in its battle with illegal-drug cartels, Genaro García Luna, the nation’s top police official, likes to put his inquisitors on the spot with a question: Would you encourage your child to become a...
Oct 26 2009
The lights have been going out all over this city. Food rots in tepid refrigerators. Computer screens pop and fizzle out. At a taco stand in Iztapalapa, José Martínez sticks a candle in a Coke bottle and serves hungry customers by its glow.

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Oct 26 2009
Mexico officials say a top Chinese-Mexican businessman admitted to U.S. prosecutors that he sold tons of a chemical used to make meth on the black market.
Oct 26 2009
You’ve all heard the news: Various cities in Mexico are kicking it up a notch with Pink Cabs created especially for women. “Estamos introduciendo a México el primer modelo de servicio de transportación conducido por mujeres y que es...
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Oct 23 2009
La Familia is firmly rooted in the southern Mexican state Michoacan. The group emerged just a few years ago and has quickly evolved into one of the most brutal forces fighting for a share of the illegal drug.
Oct 23 2009
U.S. authorities arrested 303 people Wednesday and Thursday in a nationwide sweep targeting the distribution network of La Familia, a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel known for its violence, messianic culture and control over the methamphetamine trade,...
Oct 23 2009
A 2,200-pound hippopotamus that escaped from a private zoo has been shot to death after more than a month on the run in the countryside of southeastern Mexico.
Oct 22 2009
Immigration authorities released a Mexican human rights official Wednesday, after detaining him last week as an asylum seeker even though he had not sought U.S. protection, his attorney said.
Oct 22 2009
President Felipe Calderon and the National Water Commission recently launched a new campaign in dire effort to raise critical awareness in water conservation. Mexico is facing its worst drought in 69 years with poor rainfall depleting underground...
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