Mexican Drug War

Mexico's U.S. Ambassador Calls Gun Control Critique 'Gobbledygook'

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 06.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mexico's U.S. ambassador rebuffed claims this week that the country's efforts to reduce the flow of guns from the U.S. to drug cartels i...

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49 Headless, Handless And Footless Bodies

AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 05.14.2012

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CADEREYTA, Mexico — Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of...

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Singer Kidnapped And Tortured For Refusing To Sing Song

Posted 04.10.2012

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Violence against Mexican musicians from narcocorridos bands keep escalating. A singer with the norteña band "Los Ciclones del Arroyo" was kidnapped a...

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Mexican Drug Kingpin To Be Sentenced In San Diego

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 06.02.2012

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SAN DIEGO — Former drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for leading one of the world's most brutal ca...

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Horror: Prison Guards Allegedly Plotted Mass Killings With Brutal Drug Cartel

Reuters | Posted 04.21.2012

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MONTERREY, Mexico, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Members of the Zetas drug cartel plotted with prison guards to orchestrate an elaborate escape and kill 44 of ...

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The 'Queen Of The Pacific' Eludes Extradition Again

AP | By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Posted 01.15.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican federal judge on Thursday rejected a second attempt to extradite an alleged drug trafficker to the U.S., nearly exhausting ye...

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Mexican Drug War: U.S. Accused Of Laundering Drug Cartel Money

The Huffington Post | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 12.06.2011

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In the beginning there was Fast and Furious, a botched operation carried by the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosi...

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Families Flee Bloodshed In Mexico's Drug War

AP | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Posted 02.03.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — Rafael Echevarria had a steady factory job, a modest home of his own, and enough cash to occasionally take his family to McDo...

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'El Cris,' Alleged Drug Gang Leader Arrested

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — Nearly 1,000 police officers were fired to weed out corruption from the violence-ravaged Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexica...

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Issa Issues Subpoena For Eric Holder Over Controversial Gun-Running Operation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.12.2011

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Wednesday issued a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. and ...

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'Fast And Furious' Subpoenas Issued Soon

AP | Associated Press | Posted 12.09.2011

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House oversight committee said Sunday that he could send subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this ...

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Women Changing The World: Atlanta's Womenetics 2011

Deborah Richardson | Posted 12.03.2011

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The National Women's History Project states: "History looks different when the contributions of women are included." Attendees of the "Womenetics Global Women's Initiative" take this to heart.

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President Sends Troops To Violence-Plagued Veracruz

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 11.28.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon's administration said Wednesday it is sending troops and federal police to a Gulf coast state wh...

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Noam Chomsky Says "Everyone Is An Illegal Immigrant" Aside From Native Americans

Guernica Magazine | Posted 10.16.2011

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In an interview with Luis Cárdenas of Guernica Magazine, Noam Chomsky hints that Mexican journalists are too scared to report on the U.S. government...

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Mexican Drug War Spreading To The Web

Posted 10.11.2011

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The Mexican drug war that has taken thousands of lives over the past four years isn’t just on the other side of the border. It’s now online. C...

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Texas State Senator's Campaign Slogan Confused With Mexican Drug Cartel

Posted 09.15.2011

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By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas, July 16 – A Texas state senator's beloved signature symbol will be reluctantly stripped from her campaign vehi...

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Mexico Battles New 'Drug Language' To Describe Horrifying Violence

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 06.14.2011

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MEXICO CITY — There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. "Narco" has become a general prefix. T...

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Dispatch From El Salvador: Obama's Drug War Feels Eerily Familiar

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.31.2011

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The lack of information guiding the U.S. and Salvadoran governments' militarized response to gangs mirrors the U.S.'s own spectacle-driven war on drugs -- a war that paints an entire generation as criminals.

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Obama Lays Out New Drug War Plans

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Thursday to deepen their c...

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Mass Murder: Drug Cartel Gunman Throws Grenade Into Nightclub

AP | ARTURO PEREZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at lea...

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Drug Education: Mexican Cartel King On Teacher's Payroll

AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — An alleged drug cartel leader appears on the Mexican government's 2010 teacher payroll as part of the staff of an elementary schoo...

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Mexican Army Detains 14-Year-Old Drug Cartel Assassin 'El Ponchis'

AP | OSWALD ALONSO and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CUERNAVACA, Mexico — In cargo pants and a T-shirt, the skinny, American-born 14-year-old looked like he should be in middle school. Instead he w...

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Mexico's Ex-President: Legalize Drugs

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Mexico drowns in drug related bloodshed -- suffering almost 12,000 murders in 2010 -- it is perhaps unsurprising that government critics turn up th...

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Four US Citizens Slain In Juarez As Violence Escalates

AP | OLIVIA TORRES | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said ...

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AMBUSHED: 9 Cops Dead In Mexico As Massacres Continue

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — The director of a maximum-security federal prison notorious for the escape of Mexico's top kingpin was arrested for alleged ties t...

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