Mexico's drug war

OAS calls for softer approach toward illegal drug users

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BOGOTA - The Organization of American States on Friday published a report calling for decriminalization of drug use and for greater coordination between nations in tackling the scourge.

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Mexican general sent to quell drug violence in new strategy

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence.

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Mexican journalists' sons killed; seven bodies found near Mexico City

MEXICO CITY - Gunmen executed two sons of two prominent Mexican journalists in the northern city of Chihuahua, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office said on Sunday, and police found seven bodies dumped in a Mexico City suburb.

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Ten killed in battles between armed groups in Mexico: reports

MEXICO CITY - Ten people were reported killed in clashes on Sunday between armed groups in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, which is plagued by battles between rival drug gangs.

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Thirteen dead, dozens hurt during Mexican prison riot

MEXICO CITY - Thirteen people were killed and some 65 injured in a prison riot on Saturday in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, local officials said.

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Mexico detains 108 in immigration sweep; most from Central America

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities said on Saturday they detained 108 undocumented immigrants along highways, at bus stations and on a cargo train route that thousands of Central Americans use every year to cross Mexico and enter the United States illegally.

World, Mexico 27 Apr 2013

Peru's former leader Garcia's political life at risk over pardons

LIMA - Two-time president Alan Garcia could be barred from running in Peru's next election as Congress investigates him for freeing thousands of drug dealers from prison during his last term.

18 Apr 2013

Mexican drug cartel money laundering trial begins in Texas

- The jury trial of a Mexican drug cartel leader that began on Monday in Austin, Texas, will provide a look at how the vicious gangs that make huge profits in drug and human smuggling go about laundering their illegal profits in the United States.

World, Mexico 15 Apr 2013

Six strangled, one decapitated in Mexican resort of Cancun

CANCUN, Mexico - Six people were found strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state's deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks.

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Mexican drug homicides fall 14 percent at start of Pena Nieto's term

MEXICO CITY - Mexico said on Wednesday that killings linked to organized crime fell 14 percent to 4,249 in the first four months of the presidency of Enrique Pena Nieto, who has vowed to quickly reduce the menace posed by drug cartels.

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SPECIAL REPORTS: CITIES UNDER SIEGE

A woman holds her child during a protest in Ciudad Juarez November 1, 2011. Police arrested around 25 protesters as they were trying to put up crosses in a public area in representation of the thousands of victims of the drug war. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Drug warriors fail Ciudad Juarez

Official corruption at all levels has fanned violence in Ciudad Juarez, with local and federal police and soldiers complicit in, or actually committing, many crimes.  Full Article 

BATTLES ON U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

Soldiers inspect the Sentinel radar system that was recently deployed in Douglas, Arizona March 15, 2012. The Avenger Air Defense System is to their right. A highly specialized U.S. military task force is helping federal police hunt elusive drug traffickers slipping over the Mexico border in hard-to-detect utlralight aircraft, officials said on Thursday. REUTERS/Curt Prendergast

U.S. military unit hunts Mexico drug gangs

A specialized U.S. military task force is using battlefield technology to help federal police hunt drug traffickers slipping over the Mexico border in hard-to-detect ultralight aircraft.  Full Article 

HIGH-TECH WAR

A soldier looks into a tunnel found under the Mexico-U.S. border in Tijuana November 30, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW DRUGS SOCIETY)

Mexico drug gangs use high-tech tunnels

In the past five years, a crackdown on smugglers in Mexico and tighter U.S. border security above ground has led to an increase in the use, and the sophistication, of border tunnels.  Full Article 

MEXICO DRUG WAR IN PICTURES

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The bodies of Mexico

As the drug war rages, bodies pile up on the streets of Mexico.  Slideshow