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Latin American Countries Move To Decriminalize Marijuana, Drugs

globalpost.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a dee...

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In Mexican Drug War, Investigators And Lawyers Become The Next Target

nytimes.com | MARC LACEY | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico The hit men moved in on their target, shot him dead and then disappeared in a matter of seconds. It would have been a perfect c...

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Mexico And Argentina Move Towards Decriminalizing Drugs

guardian.co.uk | Rory Carroll in Caracas, Jo Tuckman in Mexico and Tom Phillips in Rio De Janeiro | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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Argentina and Mexico have taken significant steps towards decriminalizing drugs amid a growing Latin American backlash against the US-sponsored "war o...

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Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

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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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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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Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Juárez PART 2

Federico Manfredi | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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Ciudad Juárez acquired the dubious reputation of wild border town during the Prohibition years, and has long been a major transshipment point for drugs entering the United States, but bloody struggles among rival cartels here are a relatively new phenomenon that stems from recent domestic and international developments.

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Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Juárez: PART 1

Federico Manfredi | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

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When I asked him whether he was referring to the agents of the Sinaloa Cartel, who are allegedly attempting to take over the city from the Juárez Cartel, he became nervous and defensive: "Why do you ask me if you already know?"

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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: 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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EU To Combat Latin American Drug Trade

Huffington Post | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

The European Union has agreed to expand its effort in combating drug trafficking and violence in Central and South America, reports AFP. The region i...

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National Guard Troops Could Be Sent To Mexico Border To Fight Drug War

Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan, Spencer S. Hsu and Steve Fainaru | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 m...

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

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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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 Cartels, Hezbollah Strengthen Ties

Yediot Ahronot | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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Ties between Lebanon's Shiite Hizbullah organization and Mexican drug cartels have been strengthening over the past few years, the Washington Times ...

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Clinton: Mexico Violence Fueled By America's 'Insatiable' Demand For Drugs

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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MEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday pledged to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Mexico in its violent str...

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Mexican Drug Cartels Load Up On US Bullets

GlobalPost | Todd Bensman | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

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LAREDO, Texas -- For evidence of the booming bullet business along the U.S.-Mexico border, look no further than the case of Carlos Alberto Osorio Ca...

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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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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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Mexico On Path To Becoming Bigger Security Threat Than Iraq

AP | TRACI CARL | Posted 02.18.2009 | World

MEXICO CITY — Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents. This isn't Iraq or Pakistan. It'...

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Toward 2012

Daniel Pinchbeck | Posted 02.15.2009 | Style

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What might our society gain from the legitimate use and study of psychedelics if their benefits, as well as risks, were well understood and articulated?

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Laura Zuniga, Mexican Beauty Queen, Jailed, Stripped Of Title

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 01.28.2009 | World

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican beauty queen detained on suspicion of drug and weapons violations has been stripped of her crown in the Hispanoamerican ...

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Laura Zuniga: Mexican Beauty Queen Arrested In Gun-Filled Truck

AP | By ARTURO PEREZ | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck fill...

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Mexico's Drug Wars Have Killed 7,000 In 2 Years

The Independent | Evan Williams | Posted 01.19.2009 | World

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Enrique Gonzalez was having breakfast at a roadside cafe when a man got out of a car, walked up behind him and shot him in the back with an AK-47 auto...

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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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