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Bizarre Child Trafficking Case

AP | Posted 03.15.2012

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MEXICO CITY — Investigators say four women are being held in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara in connection with an apparent child-traffi...

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Mexican Police Nab Key Suspect In Casino Fire

AP | By PORFIRIO IBARRA | Posted 03.07.2012

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MONTERREY, Mexico -- Police in Mexico captured an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel considered the mastermind behind a casino fire that killed 5...

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Mexico Police Allegedly Tortured 5 Suspects

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican human rights authorities say five men detained in the killings of two agents and a car-bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez were tortur...

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Gunmen Attack Bus, Kill 11

AP | Posted 02.21.2012

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l la VERACRUZ, Mexico — A group of gunmen attacked three passenger buses in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Thursday, killing seven pas...

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Report: Torture, Forced Disappearances And Extra-Judicial Killings In Mexico's Drug War

AP | KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 01.09.2012

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MEXICO CITY — Israel Arzate Melendez said soldiers snatched him off the street, gave him electric shocks, asphyxiated him and threatened that hi...

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Entire City's Police Force Detained In Organized Crime Investigation

AP | Posted 12.10.2011

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MONTERREY, Mexico -- The entire police force of the northern Mexico city of Linares is being held for investigation of possible corruption and ties to...

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Mexico Arrests Escaped Inmates At Drug Cartel Training Camp

AP | Posted 12.04.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico's navy announced Tuesday that marines found nine escaped inmates apparently working for the Zetas drug cartel at a camp bel...

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Acapulco Recruits Hot Lady Cops

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.30.2011

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If the head of Mexico's Guerrero state's security secretariat gets his way, Acapulco will soon be patrolled by a platoon of tall, gorgeous women eager...

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Young Mexican Police Chief Fired For Leaving Post Over Threats

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — A young woman who made international headlines when she accepted the job as police chief in a violent Mexican border town was fire...

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Last Police Officer In Mexican Border Town Goes Missing

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The last remaining police officer in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe has disappeared, and prosecutors in northern C...

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Mexico Fires 3,200 Federal Police Officers

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) MEXICO CITY - Mexico's federal police agency has fired nearly 10 percent of its force this year for failing checks designed to detect possible co...

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Top Mexican Official: Cartels Turning Attacks On Authorities

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico's drug cartels have changed tactics and are turning more attacks on authorities, rather than focusing their fire on rivals ...

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Entire Police Department Of Mexican Town Implicated In Killings, Kidnappings

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Scores of police officers – including the entire department of one town – have been detained in Mexican probes of kill...

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6 Policemen Found Decapitated In Northern Mexico

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — A Mexican navy official says alleged drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva has been killed in shootout. The official says Beltra...

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Mexico: 12 Bodies Tortured, Killed, Dumped Were Soldiers

AP | GUSTAVO RUIZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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MORELIA, Mexico — Twelve people tortured and killed in a cartel-plagued Mexican state were federal agents investigating organized crime, the gov...

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Drug War: Mexican Police Standoff With Mexican Federal Agents

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — In a hair-raising standoff that sent motorists scrambling for cover, municipal police pulled their guns on masked federal agents i...

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7 Mexican Police Officers Killed In Tijuana Clash

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.25.2011

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TIJUANA, Mexico — Seven police officers were assassinated in about an hour's time in what authorities said Tuesday was a coordinated effort that...

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Mexican Police Arrest 44 At Drug Raid During Family Baptism

Times Online | Graham Keeley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mexican federal police arrested 44 alleged members of the drugs cartel at a family baptism in Morelia, capital of the western state of Michoacan....

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Mexico: 13,500 Police Didn't Finish Elementary School

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Mexican government reports that almost 14% of the country's city, state and federal police officers never received a high school diploma, while 4%...

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