Mexico's drug war

Mexico police scour highways after PepsiCo truck torched

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MORELIA, Mexico - Mexican police on Friday hunted assailants who set ablaze a delivery truck for PepsiCo's local snack food subsidiary in what appeared to be the latest attack against the firm by a drug cartel.

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Mexico's Pena Nieto feels the heat with finish in sight

MEXICO CITY - Two months before Mexico's presidential election, Enrique Pena Nieto was strolling to victory. But with just a month to go, he may suddenly have a race on his hands.

World, Mexico Election, Mexico 01 Jun 2012

Mexican leftist closes in on presidential front-runner

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has cut the gap on front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto to just four percentage points according to a new poll, raising doubts about the outcome of the July 1 election.

World, Mexico Election, Mexico 31 May 2012

Mexican leftist closes in on presidential front-runner

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has cut the gap on front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto to just four percentage points according to a new poll, raising doubts about the outcome of the July 1 election.

World, Mexico 31 May 2012

Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs

GUATEMALA CITY - For nearly 30 years, Efrain Rios Montt evaded trial for massacres carried out during his military rule in Guatemala's civil war - until a diminutive, soft-spoken woman entered his life.

World, United Nations 30 May 2012

Mexican police patrol PepsiCo warehouses after arson fires

MEXICO CITY - Mexican police are beefing up patrols around warehouses belonging to PepsiCo's local snack food company Sabritas following a series of arson fires that damaged five of the firm's installations, an official said on Tuesday.

World, Mexico 30 May 2012

Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs

GUATEMALA CITY - For nearly 30 years, Efrain Rios Montt evaded trial for massacres carried out during his military rule in Guatemala's civil war - until a diminutive, soft-spoken woman entered his life.

World, United Nations 29 May 2012

Drug war victims' families blast Mexican candidates

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's presidential candidates on Monday faced the families of people murdered, mutilated, and kidnapped in drug violence in a meeting that was marked by strong condemnations of corrupt police and politicians.

World, Mexico Election, Mexico 28 May 2012

Mexico state arrests four after attacks on PepsiCo brand

MEXICO CITY - The central Mexican state of Guanajuato has arrested four members of a drug cartel after a series of attacks that set fire to warehouses and trucks belonging to PepsiCo's Sabritas brand of potato chips over the weekend.

World, Mexico 28 May 2012

Mexico state arrests four after attacks on PepsiCo brand

MEXICO CITY - The central Mexican state of Guanajuato has arrested four members of a drug cartel after a series of attacks that set fire to warehouses and trucks belonging to PepsiCo's Sabritas brand of potato chips over the weekend.

World, Mexico 28 May 2012

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