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The Rev. Habacuc Hernandez Benitez, a Roman Catholic priest in Guerrero, Mexico, knew the mountain towns of the southwestern state like the back of his hand. He made it his mission to seek young men for the priesthood, driving far and wide to find...
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A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on...
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To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police...
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After a 23 day hospitalization, Mexico’s oldest woman and quite possibly the oldest women in the world has taken her last breath; she was 119.
The spokesman for...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Just what we needed. Thanks to Google Street View, a new tool in Google maps, Mexicans and the entire world can see life as we, here in Mexico, know it.
Street View, a...
made popular Nov 21 2009
The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico’s top cop was supposed to help clean up the country’s long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of...
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During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.
The...
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Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he...
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In response to the business and tourism sector of Ciudad Juarez and their plea for assistance, the United Nations, via two separate representatives, has announced it...
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The daily bloodshed and horrors: kidnappings, mutilations, and extortions of Ciudad Juarez discriminates against no one, everyone is a target and all are victims.
In...
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Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
It is the latest move...
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Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
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Mexico’s SEDENA, The National Secretary of Defense, recently announced the seizure of a quarter ton of Opium in the hills of Tamborillo, in Guadalupe y Calvo...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Dear Mr. Carlos Slim Helu,
Now that I finally have my phone and internet back I should probably apologize for unleashing the wrath and hunting/stalking skills of my...
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As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
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Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City,...
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Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...
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Firefighters found six bodies inside a burning car in Tijuana, and 15 people were killed in three separate shootings in another northern Mexican border town besieged by...
made popular Sep 16 2009
A surge in drug-related violence the last 24 hours has seen at least 40 people killed in the troubled northern border region and President Felipe Calderon’s home...
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UK unveils new strategy to win the drug war or at least reduce drug violence in a war that otherwise seems undefeatable. According to new strategy, police should switch...
made popular Jul 31 2009
Police should switch their focus away from arresting drug dealers and concentrate on managing the harm they cause, according to an influential report.
The UK Drug...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Three decapitated bodies and a human head were recently discovered in three different municipalities of the state of Mexico.
The first two cadavers were found...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released...
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Twice before, the anti-drug agents had gotten a tip about a load of cocaine at the hulking industrial park on this dreary stretch of highway half an hour outside...
made popular Jun 4 2009
Just as Mexico lives in the shadow of the U.S., Guatemala lives in the shadow of Mexico. To its southern neighbor Mexico has exported its ranchera music, its soap...
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Mexico’s national security spokesman says drug violence dipped by 26 percent across the country in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period last...
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Enough with the U.S.-Mexico drug war blame game. Let’s make a new rule: Only those who don’t live in glass houses stuffed with cocaine, meth, marijuana,...
made popular Mar 6 2009
Javier Emilio Pérez Ortega, a workaholic Mexican police chief, showed up at the sleepy, two-lane border crossing here last month and asked U.S. authorities for...
made popular Apr 24 2008
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