Mexico Drug War

Is It the Beginning of the End for the War on Pot?

Anthony Gregory | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Medical Marijuana, Obama Administration, Drug War, Franklin Roosevelt, Mexico Drug War, War on Pot, War on Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Politics News

A clear majority of Americans now want to see marijuana legalized. What's more, the trend has been moving towards the pro-legalization position, and continues to do so.

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Cartel Drops Thousands Of Aerial Leaflets Slamming Governor

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, Mexico Drug War, Culiacan, Mexico, Mexico Drugs, Mario Lopez Valdez, Sinaloa Cartel Leaflets, Mexico Cartel Leaflets, Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Guzman, World News

MEXICO CITY — Drug traffickers took the unusual step of using an airplane to drop thousands of leaflets on the northern city of Culiacan accusin...

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Drug Cartel Suspected Of First Attack On Transnational Company

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.28.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- A drug cartel lieutenant has been detained in a series of firebombing attacks on Mexican potato-chip company Sabritas, a subsidiary of ...

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Mexico Front-Runner: Central Theme Is 'Diminishing Violence'

AP | By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a sal...

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Mexican Soldiers Arrest Alleged Perpetrator Of Mass Beheadings

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

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By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers have arrested an alleged perpetrator of the massacre of 49 people who...

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Mexico Army Generals Investigated For Drug Cartel Ties

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.18.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's army said it had detained a third general for questioning on Thursday, hours after a judge placed the two other officers under...

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Mexican Army Generals Detained By Anti-Drug Prosecutors

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Tomas Angeles Dauahare, Roberto Dawe Gonzalez, Mexico, Felipe Calderon, Mexico Drug War, Drug War, Mexico Drug, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary, were detained by anti-drug prosecutors and are being questioned for ...

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Mexican Pro-Migrant Priest Flees Death Threats

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- An outspoken priest who runs a shelter for migrants in southern Mexico has temporarily left his facility after receiving death threats,...

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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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Deadliest Days Of Mexican Drug War

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.13.2012

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-- Some notable incidents of mass violence Mexico's drug war over past year: _ May 13: Mutilated bodies of 49 people dumped on highway in northern M...

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Dozens Of Bodies Dumped On Highway

AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ | Posted 05.14.2012

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MONTERREY, Mexico — Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading ...

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Are You Safer In Mexico Or Texas?

Lonely Planet | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Texas, Tourism, Mexico, United States, Travel, Mexico Drug War, Crime, Safety, Travel News

Texans are twice as safe in Mexico and three times safer than in Houston.

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Dismembered Bodies Found Near Tourist Lake

AP | Posted 05.10.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- Police found 18 dismembered and beheaded bodies inside two vans in an area frequented by tourists near the city of Guadalajara in weste...

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US Targets Cartel Leader's Sons

AP | Posted 05.08.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against two sons of Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. The U...

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Drug War Slayings Snuffing Out News In Mexico

AP | MARK STEVENSON and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.04.2012

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BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico — Grieving, frightened journalists remembered three slain colleagues on Friday as young and energetic members of a press co...

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Gunmen Execute 8 Taxi Drivers

AP | Posted 04.11.2012

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MONTERREY, Mexico -- Gunmen killed eight cab drivers Tuesday in two attacks in the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico, officials said. Three people ...

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PHOTOS: Guns Used As Art Work In Mexican Art Exhibit

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Mexico, Video, Art, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Drug Violence, Arms Trafficking, Slidepollajax, Narco, Latino Voices News

A new art show exhibiting guns as art may be arriving soon in the U.S. "Adiós a las armas. Contrabando en las fronteras" ("A Farewell To Arms. C...

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Legalization Debate Takes Off in Latin America

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Central America Drugs, Latin America Drug Trade, Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, Guatemala Drug Policy, South America Drug Policy, Drug Legalization, Mexico Drug War, Latin America Drug Legalization, Mexico Drug Violence, World News

After decades of being brutalized by the U.S. government's failed prohibitionist drug policies, Latin American leaders, including not just distinguished former presidents but also current presidents, are saying "enough is enough."

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HORROR: 4 Youth Hacked To Pieces

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.09.2012

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MEXICO CITY — The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuer...

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Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Drug War, Latino Politics, Narco Trafficking, Mexico Drug Violence, Ciudad Juarez, Latino Voices News

While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest...

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Four Bodies Abandoned Near City Hall

Posted 04.25.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Authorities in Mexico say four bodies were abandoned near a city hall in the Gulf of Mexico state of Veracruz. The Veracruz Att...

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Mexico Sends Message to the United States: No More Weapons!

Lisa Haugaard | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Operation Fast and Furious, Human Rights, Mexico Drug War, Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Javier Sicilia, Mexico Drug Cartels, Gun Trafficking, Gun Control, Mexico, Felipe Calderon, Ciudad Juarez, World News

Just a few steps south of the U.S.-Mexico border, President Calderón unveiled a towering billboard last week wielding a message written in plain English.

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Mutilated Bodies Come With Threatening Message

AP | Posted 04.16.2012

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican police have found the mutilated bodies of six men inside plastic bags dumped on a road leading to the tourist city of Cuer...

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Travel Warning Expanded To 14 Mexican States

Posted 02.10.2012

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For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. State Department has expanded its travel warning for Mexico, urging Americans to stay clear of 14 Me...

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WATCH: 'Angels' May Be Cause For Drop In Violent Crime

Posted 02.12.2012

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Christian youth are standing up to the drug trafficking violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city -- where 5,000 people were murdered in t...

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