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ELECTION EXTRAVAGANZA: 2012 Will Tell All (MAP)

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Elections, Video, World, Yemen Elections, Vladimir Putin, US Elections, Barack Obama, Calderon, Nicolas Sarkozy, Russia Elections, Mexico Elections, France Elections, World News

Will Putin remain in power in Russia? Is French president Nicolas Sarkozy headed for a second term? Who will call the White House home next January? ...

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Drug Violence Kills More Than 47,000 People In Mexico

AP | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Video, Mexico Drug War, Drug War, Drug Violence, President Felipe Calderon, Mexico, Mexico Drug Violence, Felipe Calderon Drug Violence, Calderon, World News

MEXICO CITY (AP) - More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence in the five years since President Felipe Calderon launched a military c...

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Five Years Into Mexico's Drug War

AP | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Mexico Drug War, Mexico Violence, Drug Violence, Felipe Calderon, Mexico, Drug War, Veracruz, Mexico Drug Violence, Calderon, World News

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Brighitte Cuesta Sanchez answered the telephone the same day a local newspaper ran a front-page story that she was dead. It ...

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Mexican President's Sister Trails In Governor Race

AP | KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Mexico President Felipe Calderon, Pan, Michoacan Elections, Luisa Maria Calderon, Mexico Pan, Calderon Sister, Felipe Calderon Sister, Mexico, Michoacan, Pri, Calderon, World News

MEXICO CITY — The party that held a lock on power in Mexico for seven decades appears to have won a key state election before the country's pres...

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Mexico Minister's Death, Accident Or Assassination?

The Huffington Post | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Mexico, Conspiracy Theories, Felipe Calderon, Francisco Blake Mora, Blake Mora Dead, Calderon, Video, Latino Voices News

Was it an accident or an assassination? Mere coincidence or a conspiracy? From the very moment that Mexican media announced that an helicopter ...

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The Royal Tour Took a Detour from the Mexican Violence

Agustin Duran | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Drug Related Violence Mexico, The Royal Tour, Tourism in Mexico, War on Drugs, Mexico Tourism, Latino Politics, Drug War Violence, Calderon, Latino Voices News

The same week The Royal Tour was aired in the United States to welcome Americans to visit and enjoy Mexico, a gunmen dumped 35 bodies on one of the main Posa Rica Boulevards, during day-light and in front of a lot of cars passing by.

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40 Dead In Attack On Casino Royale

AP | PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Gambling, Video, Gamblers, Casino Royale, Monterrey, Gunmen, Terror, Maria Navarro, Drug Cartel, Casino, Mexico, Mexico Casino, Robbery, Calderon, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico — Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with gasoline and started a fire that trapped...

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How Legalizing Marijuana Would Weaken Mexican Drug Cartels

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Calderon, Drug Cartels, Marijuana Legalization, Prop. 19, Mexican Drug War, Organized Crime, Prop 19, Politics News

Organized crime is a business. Reducing demand through providing legal sources hurts that business. Hardline rhetoric and wars of statistics cannot change that fundamental equation.

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Mexico's Presidents Are Considering Legalizing Drugs. Will the U.S. Join the Debate?

Daniel Robelo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico, Drug War, Drugs, Vicente Fox, Sinaloa Cartel, Calderon, Prop 19, Norml, Drug Legalization, Politics News

President Calderon's openness to debating legalization comes amid new recognition that the cartels are not just killing each other -- they are openly challenging the Mexican state.

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Mexican President Slams New Arizona Immigration Law: 'Opens The Door To Intolerance, Hate'

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday condemned Arizona's tough new immigration law as discriminatory and warned that relatio...

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Obama and Calderon Both Insult Americans

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, John McCain, Peoria, Arizona Immigration, President Barack Obama, Illegal Immigration, President Obama, Mexico, Calderon, Poll, Obama, Immigration, U.S. Constitution, Arizona, Racial Profiling, State Department, Elena Kagan Supreme Court, Immigration Reform, Attorney General, Illegal Immigrants, Arizona Immigration Bill, Constitution, Arizona Immigration Law, Elena Kagan, China, Politics News

By publicly bashing an American law during a joint appearance with the President of Mexico, Barack Obama poured gasoline on an already-raging fire and missed a golden chance to be statesmanlike.

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Calderon Speech To Congress: Mexican President To Address Immigration During Joint Session

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Mexican President Felipe Calderon took his opposition to a new Arizona immigration law to Congress Thursday, saying it "ignores a r...

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Acapulco Killings: 13 Killed In Drug Gang Violence As Spring Break Tourists Arrive

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Gang Violence, Tuncingo, Beheadings, Drug Gangs, Police, Mexico, Drugs, Guerrero, Acapulco, Murders, Killings, Calderon, World News

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- At least 13 people have been killed in a Mexican Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence. Guerrero state police say th...

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Mexico Revs up War on Workers; Obama Shrugs

Jeff Faux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workers' Rights, Calderon, Obama, Labor Unions, Nafta, Luz Y Fuerza, Mexico, World News

In Mexico, it was as if the US government had suddenly sent the National Guard to take over the Tennessee Valley Authority and replace its workers with people from Duke Power on the grounds that the TVA had run a deficit.

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Zelaya Tells Mexicans Obama Can Turn Back Coup "In Five Minutes"

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Arias, Calderon, Honduras, North America Summit, San Jose Accords, Manuel Zelaya, World News

Zelaya came through Mexico City this week to woo Mexican President Felipe Calderon and talk to grassroots organizations that support his return to power. I decided to go see the man I've been writing about for the past 40 days.

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Mexico Election: Drug War Plays Big Public Role For First Time

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico Pri, Felipe Calderon, Calderon Pan, Anguiano, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Election, Mexico, Mexico Pan, Pri, Mexico's Drug War, Mexico Election Drug War, Calderon, World News

MEXICO CITY — When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared that his brother and cousin were in pr...

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90 Percent of Mexican Crime Guns Come From U.S., Says GAO

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Border Violence, National Rifle Association, Illegal Gun Trafficking, Violence Policy Center, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border, Gun Trafficking, Gao, Calderon, Vpc, Mexico Violence, BORDER ISSUES, Nra, Wayne LaPierre, Government Accountability Office, World News

So much for NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's oft-repeated claim that Mexican gun traffickers don't bother to "trifle with paperwork at U.S. gun stores."

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Swine Flu: Calderon Popularity Soars From Flu Crisis

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calderon Ratings, Felipe Calderon, Swine Flu Outbreak, Swine Flu Pandemic, Foreign Affairs, Swine Flu, Mexico, H1n1 Flu, H1N1 Influenza, H1n1, Swine Flu Mexico, Calderon Popularity, Advocacy, Calderon, World News

Mexican President Felipe Calderon's handling of the swine flu story">H1N1 flu crisis in April and May boosted his popularity rating to a glowing 69 pe...

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Mexico's Swine Flu Response Getting High Approval

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calderon Flu Response, Felipe Calderon, Swine Flu Outbreak, Swine Flu Pandemic, Health, Foreign Affairs, Swine Flu, Mexico Flu Response, Mexico, Swine Flu Mexico, Advocacy, Calderon, World News

Over 70 percent give Felipe Calderon's government high marks for its handling of the crisis. ...

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Mexico President Denies Country A 'Failed State'

AP | TRACI CARL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Mexico Drug Trafficking, US Mexico Drug Wars, Felipe Calderon, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Mexico Failed State, Foreign Affairs, Mexico Drug Wars, Calderon, World News

MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon hopes to quell Mexico's rampant drug violence by the end of his term in 2012, and disputes U.S. fears th...

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Live from Davos - Fareed Zakaria's Snappy Zinger

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Wef, Zakaria, Davos 09, Davos, Latin America, Mexico, South Korea, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Fareed Zakaria, World Economic Forum, Calderon, World News

The last plenary session at the WEF last night featured Fareed Zakaria asking a zinger of a question to a panel of the heads of state of the UK, South Korea, South Africa and Mexico.

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Mexico Drug Wars: Looking For Solutions

Open Democracy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico Killings, Mexico Drug War, Mexico City, Drug Decriminalization, Mexico Violence, Mexico, How to End Mexico's Drug Wars, Mexico Drugs, Tijuana, Calderon, Deaths in Tijuana, World News

How does one defeat an enemy who is more prepared, more ruthless, and awash in the cash necessary to buy the best weapons, surveillance and people? Th...

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