Mexicos Drug War

Santa Muerte: The Extraordinary Devotion To Mexico's Saint Of Death (PHOTOS)

R. Andrew Chesnut | Posted 03.08.2012

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R. Andrew Chesnut

While tens of thousands of Mexicans have lost their lives in the ongoing drug war, millions more have become devoted to Saint Death.

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Who Lost Mexico?

Moisés Naím | Posted 06.21.2011

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Moisés Naím

Not too long ago Mexico was regarded as the Latin American nation most likely to become a developed country. Now it is commonly seen as a nation where some of the most powerful and ruthless criminals reside.

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Terrorist Or Activist? A Young Colombian, Gabriel Gonzalez, Fights For His Country, His Reputation (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Tucker

Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.

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Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday – a move that prosecutors say makes sense eve...

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Mexico's Prisons: Complete With Pizza Delivery, Prostitutes, And Rampant Drug Trade

nytimes.com | MARC LACEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY The surveillance cameras captured it all: guards looking on nonchalantly as 53 inmates many of them associated with one of Mexico's most n...

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Mexican Drug Cartels Spread Their Tentacles Into 47 Nations

AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA and FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, d...

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Mexico Drug War: Government To Decriminalize Minor Drug Use

Los Angeles Times | Tracy Wilkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reporting from Mexico City -- Could Mexican cities become Latin Amsterdams, flooded by drug users seeking penalty-free tokes and toots? That is the f...

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

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Mexico Cocaine Hidden in Sharks

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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map locator The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks....

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Drug War: Mexico Military FInds One Of Counry's Largest Meth Labs

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs...

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Mexico Drug War: Drug Lawyer Who Was Tortured Seeks US Asylum

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN ANTONIO -- Lawyer Ernesto Gutierrez fled Matamoros, Mexico, to the U.S. last year after the much-feared Los Zetas enforcement wing of the Gulf Car...

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Juan Manuel Jurado Zarzoza, Gulf Cartel Kingpin, Arrested At Cancun Resort

AP | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army has captured 25 gunmen in northern Mexico who witnesses say disguised themselves as soldiers. The men were captu...

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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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Mexico Detains 10 Mayors For Alleged Drug Ties

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Federal forces detained 10 mayors and 18 other officials Tuesday for allegedly protecting one of Mexico's most violent drug cartel...

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Raymundo Almanza Morales, Drug Suspect On Most-Wanted List, Captured In Mexico

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Soldiers have arrested a suspected drug cartel member listed among Mexico's 37 most-wanted traffickers, the Defense Department sai...

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Tijuana: Body Found On Fire, Head Wrapped In Packing Tape

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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TIJUANA, Mexico — Police found a body in flames dumped along a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of this violent northern border city, authorit...

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US Police Will Train Mexican Drug Officials In Cartel Fight

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. and Mexico are drawing up plans to dispatch up to 300 former U.S. law enforcement officials to Mexico later this year to train thousands of M...

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Obama, Calderon Pledge To Fight Drug War

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are pledging to work together on challenges confronting both countrie...

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Alan Bersin To Be Named US 'Border Czar' To Watch Mexican Border

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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EL PASO, Texas — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano named a former federal prosecutor Wednesday to the new post of "border czar" to ov...

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Mexican Drug War: 10 Shocking Facts

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

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In anticipation of President Obama's trip south this week -- first to Mexico on Thursday and then to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tob...

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne R. Davis

President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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Washington Post Launches Series On Mexico's Drug War

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Washington Post has launched a year-long series -- "Mexico at War" -- that will take a closer look into the Mexican drug war and offer snapshots o...

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Vicente Carrillo Leyva, Wanted Mexican Drug Suspect, Detained

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announ...

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Mexico Crisis: White House Unveils Anti-Cartel Effort (VIDEO)

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to send more agents and equipment to the southwestern border to fight Mexican drug cartels and keep ...

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Mexican Critics Accuse US Embassy Of Stealing A City Street

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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