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Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145

Federal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday...

Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said...

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...

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Marisol Valles Garcia: 5 Facts on the Mexican Police Chief Who Got Fired

Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old woman who made headlines after becoming the police chief of a Mexican border town beset by drug cartel violence, has been fired from her position after reportedly fleeing for the United States. Officials in Praxedis G. Guerrero said Valles Garcia did not report to work on Monday...

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PepsiCo's Mexico snack subsidiary attacked again

MORELIA, Mexico -Banners signed by a cult-like Mexican drug gang say that cartel members launched firebombing attacks on a PepsiCo. subsidiary because they believe the snack company let law-enforcement agents use its trucks for surveillance.

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Drug Ring Busted In Philadelphia, District Attorney's Office Reports

On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney's Dangerous Drug Offenders Unit announced they broke up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked cocaine into the city from New York. Authorities seized 28 kilos of cocaine with a street value of close to $3.3 million, as well as 16 vehicles, 11 properties and 5 guns in...

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Cartel Drops Thousands Of Aerial Leaflets Slamming Governor

The governor of the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa says drug traffickers apparently used an airplane to drop thousands of leaflets accusing him of taking orders from drug lord Joaquin Guzman.

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Security forces kill 12 gunmen in eastern Mexico

Soldiers and police killed 12 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a shootout in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, state officials said.

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Mexico: Zetas Drug Cartel Ordered Killing Of 49

The army charged Monday that the top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square, then had banners hung around the country denying responsibility in an effort to have their enemies blamed for the massacre.

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06/01/12 PepsiCo's Mexico snack subsidiary attacked again Source: Daily Sparks Tribune - Sparks NV Assailants in western Mexico burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, shortly after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks against the company, police said Friday.
06/01/12 Mexico drug war displaces families in Sinaloa highlands Source: Imperial Valley Press - El Centro CA For generations, the extended Hernandez family tended fields of marijuana high in Sinaloa's western Sierra Madre highlands.
06/01/12 'El Grande' in Laredo to face federal charges Source: mySA - San Antonio TX A former Mexican police officer who authorities say was a top cartel lieutenant is in Laredo facing drug-trafficking charges.
05/31/12 Drug Ring Busted In Philadelphia, District Attorney's... Source: The Huffington Post On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney's Dangerous Drug Offenders Unit announced they broke up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked cocaine into the city from New York. Authorities seized 28 kilos of cocaine with a street value of close to $3.3 million, as well as 16 vehicles, 11 properties and 5 guns in the raid, and 17 suspects were arrested, according to a press release from the DA's office sent to The Huffington Post. Smugglers in Philadelphia would outfit vehicles with drug-hiding compartments, then pick up drugs in Manhattan and the Bronx and bring them back to Philadelphia, the DA's office reported.
05/31/12 Mexico drug gang accuses snack company of spying Source: ABC - KLTV 7 - Tyler TX Banners signed by a cult-like Mexican drug gang say that cartel members launched firebombing attacks on a PepsiCo. subsidiary because they believe the snack company let law-enforcement agents use its trucks for surveillance.