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US Warns Travelers After 4 More Mass Graves Found in Mexico

In Mexico, another grisly find. Mexican authorities have uncovered four more mass graves in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, where the country's violent drug cartels have begun abducting passengers on buses in the area, including at least one U.S. citizen. The U.S. State Department issued a new warning against...

141 Inmates Escape Mexican Border Prison

MEXICO CITY (Dec. 17) -- Nearly 150 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, and authorities said the breakout was probably helped by prison employees. The public safety department of Tamaulipas state, where the prison is located near the border with Laredo, Texas,...

As Mexico Celebrates Bicentennial, Drug War Claims the Headlines

(Sept. 13) -- Mexico's bicentennial celebrations this week will be overshadowed by the ongoing drug war and its rampant violence. In some of the most violent regions of the country, Independence Day festivities have been canceled or dramatically altered for public safety. And though there has been some recent good news in...

Car Bomb Signals New Dimension to Mexican Drug War

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (July 16) - A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday. Mayor Jose Reyes said federal police have confirmed to him...

Mexicans to Vote Amid Drug-Fueled Violence

MEXICO CITY (June 30) -- As drug-trade violence mars the run-up to a brace of elections in Mexico, a troubling figure has resurfaced as the leading mayoral candidate in Mexico's murder capital. Hector "Teto" Murguia Lardizabal, 57, a former mayor of the violent border city Ciudad Juarez, left office in 2007 under a cloud...

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05/25/12 Cartel launches car bomb near border Source: ABC - KSAT 12 - San Antonio TX Mexican officials say suspected cartel gunmen have launched a complex attack involving heavy weapons and a car bomb on a police dormitory less than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) from the U.S. border.
05/23/12 Blog: El MaÃ±ana cedes battle to report on Mexican... Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) If you promised not to reveal their names, the staff of the major newspaper in Nuevo Laredo would tell you that a couple of years ago, for a while, the death threats from the gang in charge of the town were so demanding that the paper had to stop covering murders of any kind.
05/21/12 Mexico: Zetas Cartel Boss Arrested For Ordering... Source: International Business Times (Australia) "The Zetas group distance ourselves (from responsibility) from the 49 dismembered bodies in Nuevo Leon and we ask that before blaming us, check real good, INVESTIGATE. Do your job like you are supposed to," the cartel said in one of the public notes.
05/16/12 The War Next Door Source: Human Events The results of drug-related violence in our most populous neighbor are truly horrific: just this week, 49 mutilated and decapitated bodies were found in a city just 80 miles from the United States.
05/14/12 Dozens of bodies, many mutilated, dumped in Mexico Source: NBC - KTUU 2 News - Anchorage AK Mexican authorities responding to an anonymous tip discovered about 50 mostly mutilated bodies dumped on the side of a highway between Monterrey and the U.S. border, a region where rival gangs are battling for control over a lucrative drug-trafficking corridor.