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Gunmen Kill 5 at Mexican Border Bar

MEXICO CITY - Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths. A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the...

US Ambassador to Mexico Quits Amid WikiLeaks Furor

MEXICO CITY --The U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigned Saturday amid furor over a leaked diplomatic cable in which he complained about inefficiency and infighting among Mexican security forces in the campaign against drug cartels. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Paris to meet with U.S. allies on Libya,...

Clinton: US Ambassador to Mexico Has Resigned

WASHINGTON --U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, who criticized his host government's handling of the drug problem in a cable divulged by the WikiLeaks website, has resigned, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday. President Felipe Calderon, who met earlier this month with Obama at the White House,...

Obama, Calderon Commit to Stopping Drug Violence

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Thursday to deepen their cooperation in combating drug violence and declared a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. During a joint news conference at the...

14 Killed in Mexico Bar Attacks

MEXICO CITY -- At least 14 people were killed in three separate attacks in bars in northern Mexico, authorities said Sunday. In Coahuila state, across the border from Texas, nine men died late Saturday when gunmen opened fire inside two bars in separate attacks, state prosecutors said in a statement. Eleven others were...

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Mexico's PRI repudiates pol linked by U.S. to cartel

Mexico's PRI, poised to retake the presidency this year after more than a decade in opposition, sought on Wednesday to distance itself from a prominent party member accused by U.S. authorities of taking bribes from drug cartels.

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Mexico Drug Prosecutors Detain 2 Army Generals

Two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary, were detained by anti-drug prosecutors and are being questioned for alleged links to drug traffickers, authorities said Wednesday.

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Nathan Gardels: G-20 MUST SUPPORT INCLUSIVE GREEN GROWTH GLOBALLY: Gordon Brown, Eric Schmidt, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, George Yeo

The following is the 21st Century Council statement from the pre-G-20 meeting in Mexico City, May 4-6, 2012.

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05/24/12 Mexico: Drug Cartel Boss Extradited To US Source: International Business Times (Australia) After his election in 2006, Mexico President Felipe Calderon began a military offensive against drug trafficking, and the Beltran Leyva cartel is perhaps Calderon's greatest victory in this war.
05/22/12 Mexico leftist moves into second in presidential poll Source: The West Australian Mexico's leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pushed into second place behind opposition frontrunner Enrique Pena Nieto with just seven weeks to go before the vote, a poll showed on Tuesday.
05/22/12 Caribbean Courts Mexico as Ally in the G20 Source: IPS Inter Press Service The Caribbean Community bloc (Caricom) is lobbying Mexico to use its influence as chair of the G20, which controls 90 percent of world trade, to promote the interests of the Caribbean and other small island developing states when it meets in June. Of special interest to the Caribbean is reform of the international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
05/22/12 Lee, Mexican President Stress Green Growth to Resolve... Source: KBS World President Lee Myung-bak and Mexican President Felipe Calderon say green growth is a key solution to realizing global economic stability, growth and recovery.
05/21/12 Mexico committed to CARICOM Source: Nation News - Barbados President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, today assured members of the CARICOM that the region will have a clear voice when his country hosts the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, next month.

Background on Felipe Calderon

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born August 18, 1962) is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012. He is a member of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), one of the three major Mexican political parties.

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