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Mexico Drug Gangs Buy Public Support

Los Angeles Times | Tracy Wilkinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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Reporting from Monterrey, Mexico -- The small houses of the Independencia neighborhood climb a hill that rises from the bone-dry Santa Catarina riverb...

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Ciudad Juarez: Mexican Troops Enter City Embroiled In Drug Gang War

BBC | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs. Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try...

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Mexico: Juarez Police No Match For The Outlaws

New York Times | MARC LACEY | Posted 04.01.2009 | World

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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico -- Mayor José Reyes Ferriz is supposed to be the one to hire and fire the police chief in this gritty border city that is at t...

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Mexico President Denies Country A 'Failed State'

AP | TRACI CARL | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon hopes to quell Mexico's rampant drug violence by the end of his term in 2012, and disputes U.S. fears th...

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Mexican Drug Gangs Terrorize Town, Police Force

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico — For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especiall...

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Mexican Drug Gang Fights Leave 21 Dead

BBC | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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Gun battles between suspected drug gang members and troops have left 21 dead in northern Mexico, police say. The violence started when gunmen drove i...

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Obama Must End the War on Drugs -- or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse

Johann Hari | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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We now have a chance to bankrupt the Mexican cartels, the Taliban, the Bloods and the Crips, and the gangs that are shooting their way across world -- before they cause the collapse of two countries.

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Mexican Drug Violence Spills Over Into US

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States. U.S. authorities are reporting a...

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What If a State Failed and Nobody Cared?

Adam Elkus | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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No one puts Mexico in the same category as a violent, unstable state like Pakistan. No one, that is, except the Pentagon.

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Obama-Calderon Talks Likely To Focus On Mexican Drug War

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — With violence spilling over the Mexican border into the U.S., President Felipe Calderon should have little trouble securing suppor...

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Felix Batista: US Anti-Kidnapping Expert Kidnapped In Mexico

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 01.15.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — A U.S. anti-kidnapping expert was abducted by gunmen in northern Mexico last week, a sign of just how bold this nation's kidnappin...

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Mexico Drug Wars: Looking For Solutions

Open Democracy | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

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How does one defeat an enemy who is more prepared, more ruthless, and awash in the cash necessary to buy the best weapons, surveillance and people? Th...

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Journalists Targeted In Mexico's Drug War

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 01.06.2009 | Media

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As the photographer pulled his 2000 Ford Explorer into a soccer field, the crackle of his police scanner was broken by a...

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US Will Give $400 Million To Mexico To Fight Drug Gangs

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

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In the first stage of the multi-year Merida Initiative, the U.S. is providing $400 million to Mexico and $65 million to Central America to fight drug ...

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