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Pseudoephedrine Crackdown Forces Mexican Meth Cartels To Go Back To Basics

AP | DAVID W. KOOP | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican cartels are increasingly going "old school" to keep supplying America with methamphetamine despite an ingredient squeeze. ...

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2009 Marked The Beginning Of The End Of Failed Drug War: Top 10 Stories Of The Year

Tony Newman | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics

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2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States drug war. There was more debate and movement toward sensible drug policies this year than in the last nine years combined.

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Vigilante Justice Spreads Across Mexico

Global Post | Ioan Grillo | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The five teenage boys slump against the wall of a dark house and eye the camcorder nervously. Suddenly, a fis...

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Gunmen Kill 17 At A Drug Rehab In Mexico

AP | OLIVIA TORRES and ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Neighbors mopped blood from the sidewalk outside a drug rehabilitation center Thursday, cleaning up the carnage after gu...

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Mexico and Argentina Move to Decriminalize Marijuana and Other Drugs

Tony Newman | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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In the last week both Mexico and Argentina made international news by passing a law and making a major Supreme Court ruling calling for low-level drug offenders to receive treatment instead of jail.

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Mexico Anti-Drug Aid Delayed Due To Human Rights Criticism

AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., blocked the release of a favorable State Department report on Mexico's human rights record, The Washingt...

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Crystal Meth Goes International And Industrial

GlobalPost | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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Ioan Grillo | GlobalPost CULIACAN, Mexico -- The colossal water cistern set in a clearing in a hilly, heavily forested area can hold 25,000 liters ...

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Mexican Drug Cartels Spread Their Tentacles Into 47 Nations

AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA and FRANK BAJAK | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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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: Asylum Seekers Increasingly Turned Away By US Immigration Courts

GlobalPost | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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By Todd Bensman | GlobalPost SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Their stories may be heart-rending. Their experiences may seem unimaginable. Their lives may st...

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Mexican Army Using Torture To Battle Drug Traffickers, Rights Groups Say

Washington Post | Steve Fainaru and William Booth | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

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PUERTO LAS OLLAS, Mexico -- The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, ...

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Mexico Drug War: Reporter Forced To Flee From Army, "The Biggest Cartel Of All"

Mother Jones | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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There is a man driving fast down a dirt road leading to the border. A rooster tail of dust marks his passage. He is very frightened and his 15-year-ol...

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Drug War: Obama May Send 1,500 National Guard Volunteers To Mexican Border

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug e...

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Drug War: Mexico Crackdown Squeezing Cocaine Dealers In Canada

Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

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There's a new drug war brewing along the U.S. border -- but this time it's coming from up north. As Mexico cracks down on its warring drug factions, d...

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Mexico Drug War: Cartels Lure US Teens As Killers

New York Time | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

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When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond,...

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

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

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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 07.17.2009 | World

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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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Mexico: 10,000 Central American Migrants Kidnapped In 6 Months, Study Says

AP | eec-ms | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — A survey by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission shows that thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing the countr...

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

AP | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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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 07.10.2009 | World

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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 06.27.2009 | World

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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 06.22.2009 | World

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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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Mexico Prison Break: 53 Walk Out While Guards Do Nothing

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — Security camera footage shows that guards at a Mexican prison nonchalantly stood by as 53 dangerous inmates walked out _ and didn'...

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Mexico Prison Break: Suspected Drug Gang Breaks Free 59 Prisoners

Reuters | Posted 06.16.2009 | World

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Suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel disguised as federal police entered a state prison in the northern state of Zacatecas on Saturday and freed...

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