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Oct 2 2009
American interests could become targets of Mexico’s drug cartels as Washington deepens its involvement in the war against drugs south of the border, according to a leading global intelligence and security corporation.
Oct 1 2009
Tiny fish swimming in a tank full of piranhas. That looks to be the likeliest scenario in a blood-soaked double homicide that left two Canadians dead in the sunny Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
Oct 1 2009
Suspected drug hitmen burst into a Mexican radio station and shot dead a journalist in front of his colleagues in the latest brazen attack on the media, authorities and a Mexican newspaper said on Thursday.
Oct 1 2009
Busloads of teenagers descend on this sweltering agricultural town 500 kilometres west of Mexico City every few months to participate in self-improvement seminars. The seminars supposedly impart values, build self-esteem and condemn vices such as drug...
Oct 1 2009
Mexico’s nimble drug cartels are leapfrogging tightened border security and establishing sophisticated marijuana-growing operations in North Texas and Oklahoma, law enforcement officials say.
Oct 1 2009
One of the newer drug cartels being pursued by President Felipe Calderon’s administration is La Familia — a group that mixes politics, spiritualism and violence in ways never before seen in Mexico.
Oct 1 2009
A former Mexican sports commissioner whose daughter was killed by her abductors criticized the government Wednesday for failing to combat crimes like kidnapping as aggressively as it fights drug trafficking.
Sep 29 2009
I’ve been asked by many what it’s like, you know, actually living in lawless narcoland Mexico. I’m always at loss for words with such questions, never truly sure how to answer, but in this post, for you, I’ll try my best. To...
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Sep 22 2009
Federal customs officers seized nearly 50 pounds of cocaine that carried a street value of more than $1.5 million. The seizure happened Saturday at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge, where officers sent a northbound 2003 Dodge Ram pickup truck...
Sep 22 2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Monday defended the country’s budget plan that it would support the poor by increasing government expenditures on infrastructure, health and education.