Mexico's drug war

Mexican ex-governor gets 11 years in U.S. for money laundering

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NEW YORK - A former Mexican state governor was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the United States on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiring to launder millions of dollars in bribes from a notorious drug cartel.

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Leader of leftist party in Mexico's Oaxaca state found dead

MEXICO CITY - The dead body of a top leader of Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) for southern Oaxaca state was found on Thursday and police are investigating his death as a homicide, the state attorney general's office said.

World, Mexico, Mexico Election 27 Jun 2013

Mexico says it rescues 165 migrants kidnapped near U.S. border

MEXICO CITY - Mexican troops have rescued 165 people, mostly Central Americans including children and pregnant women, who were kidnapped by a gunman in Mexico's northeast and held captive less than a mile from the U.S. border, the government said on Thursday.

World, Mexico 06 Jun 2013

Arizona mother walks free from Mexico drug bust nightmare

PHOENIX - An Arizona mother of seven jailed in Mexico after marijuana was found under her bus seat was released on Thursday after video evidence showed her boarding the vehicle without the drugs, her attorney said.

World, Mexico, U.S. 31 May 2013

Rival Honduran gangs in truce to end spiral of violence

TEGUCIGALPA - Two of the most violent gangs in Honduras announced a truce on Tuesday under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world's most murderous country.

World, United Nations 28 May 2013

Mexico drug cartel commander pleads guilty in murder of U.S. official

NEW YORK - A Mexican drug cartel commander known as "Tweety Bird" pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in Washington to ordering the ambush and murder of U.S. immigration agents in 2011, according to U.S. officials.

World, Mexico 23 May 2013

OAS calls for softer approach toward illegal drug users

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.

17 May 2013

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.

World, Mexico Election, Mexico 16 May 2013

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.

World, Mexico, Mexico Election 05 May 2013

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.

World, Mexico, Mexico Election 28 Apr 2013

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