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Mexico Targets Cell Phones in Anti-Crime Bid

By Jennifer MartinezApr 13th 2010 – 7:44PM
AP

AP

(April 13) -- Having failed to stymie the murderous influence of drug traffickers by bolstering the police force, scrutinizing bank movements or even deploying federal troops, the Mexican government this week is trying to get at them through their cell phones. A controversial law requiring all Mexicans to register their...

In Ciudad Juarez, Drugs Fuel a Murderous War

By Emily SchmallMar 24th 2010 – 6:53PM
Getty Images

Getty Images

CIUDAD JUÁREZ (March 24) -- Two weeks ago, José Reyes Ferriz, the mayor of the sprawling industrial city now notorious as Mexico's murder capital, got a message affixed to the head of a pig left in a trash bag on the street. The gruesome narcomanta left little to the imagination: "Reyes Ferriz has two weeks to live," it...

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