Veracruz

Three Journalists Slain In East Mexico

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 05.04.2012

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MEXICO CITY — Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain ...

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Four Bodies Abandoned Near City Hall

Posted 04.25.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Authorities in Mexico say four bodies were abandoned near a city hall in the Gulf of Mexico state of Veracruz. The Veracruz Att...

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Mass Graves: Mexican Navy Locates 10 Drug War Victims

AP | Posted 04.09.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — A suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel led Mexican authorities to mass graves at two ranches in the Gulf coast state of ...

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Official Finds Unusual Way To Transport $1.9 Million In Cash

AP | By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MARK STEVENSON | Posted 04.01.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- Political rivals slammed each other Tuesday over $1.9 million in wads of cash found stuffed into a state official's luggage at a centra...

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13 Bodies Found In Mexican Drug Cartels Battle

AP | Posted 02.24.2012

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MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army announced Sunday that it had captured the head of security for Sinaloa drug cartel head Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman...

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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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Zetas Infiltrated Veracruz City Policy

AP | By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 02.21.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- It has come to this: firing an entire police force in a major Mexican port city. Police in Veracruz-Boca del Rio had become so infiltr...

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Mexico Disbands City's Entire Police Force

AP | Posted 02.20.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — The entire police force in the major Gulf coast port city of Veracruz was dissolved on Wednesday, and Mexican officials sent ...

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Five Years Into Mexico's Drug War

AP | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 02.09.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — Brighitte Cuesta Sanchez answered the telephone the same day a local newspaper ran a front-page story that she was dead. It ...

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Newspaper Office Set Ablaze In Mexico

AP | Posted 01.06.2012

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VERACRUZ, Mexico -- More than a dozen people barged into the offices of a newspaper in central Mexico on Sunday, dousing it with gasoline and setting ...

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Gabriel Lerner

Anonymous vs. Zetas: Hackers Taking On The Drug Cartel

HuffingtonPost.com | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 01.02.2012

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At first sight it looked like the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator. "Zetas Kidnap 'Anonymous' Member, Video Threatens To Expose Drug Cartel," said the...

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Video Threatens To Expose Zetas After 'Anonymous' Hacker Kidnapping

AP | Posted 12.31.2011

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — An Internet video is threatening Mexico's Zetas drug cartel with exposure of its allies in the local police and news media th...

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Mexican President: State Has Been 'Left In The Hands Of The Zetas'

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 12.14.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Friday that the violence-plagued Gulf coast state of Veracruz had been left in the hands of...

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Bloodshed In Veracruz

AP | Posted 12.08.2011

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VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Mexican officials say 10 more bodies have been found in what appears to be more bloodshed in the battle between rival cartels for ...

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'Mata Zetas' Drug Gang Kills Dozens More

AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 12.07.2011

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MEXICO CITY — A relatively new drug gang is responsible for killing at least 67 people whose bodies were found over the course of a couple of we...

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Mexico: Drug Gang Kills 32

Posted 12.07.2011

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MEXICO CITY — A relatively new drug gang is responsible for killing at least 67 people whose bodies were found over the course of a couple of weeks ...

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Violent Drug Gang Holds Kidnap Victims In Local Jail

AP | By PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ | Posted 12.07.2011

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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- An official in northern Mexico says local policemen allowed a drug gang to use a municipal jail to hold kidnap victims, appa...

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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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Cartels Poised For One-On-One Battle To Control Drug Markets

AP | By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 12.01.2011

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VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Five years after President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against Mexico's five main drug cartels, the nation is now domina...

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Authorities Detain Zetas Cartel Hit Man, 'Commander Devil'

AP | Posted 11.30.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities detained the Zeta drug cartel's alleged top hit man in the city of Veracruz for the disappearance of three mar...

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President Sends Troops To Violence-Plagued Veracruz

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 11.28.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon's administration said Wednesday it is sending troops and federal police to a Gulf coast state wh...

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Mexican President Sends Federal Troops To Violence-Torn State

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 11.28.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon's administration said Wednesday it is sending troops and federal police to a Gulf coast state wh...

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Mexico Horror: Gunmen Dump 35 Bodies During Rush Hour

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.21.2011

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — A gang known to be aligned with Mexico's most-wanted drug lord appears to be making a violent challenge to the dominant Zetas...

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It Stinks to High Heaven

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Javier Sierra

The Mexican meat industry generates 130 million tons of fecal and urine matter each year, which often ends up in rivers and on coasts causing terrible environmental damage.

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"Patient Zero" Identified in Mexican Flu Outbreak?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Kirby

Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova announced Monday evening that officials have identified what they believe to be the earliest known case of the swine flu outbreak.

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