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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...

Mayor's Death Caps Another Bloody Week of Mexican Drug Violence

(Sept. 24) -- Mexican authorities say the mayor of a northern Mexico town was gunned down Thursday, making him the second mayor to be killed this month. Prisciliano Rodriguez, mayor of Doctor Gonzalez, a town about 30 miles east of Monterrey, was shot while driving to his ranch, MSNBC reports. A person who was with...

25 Slain in Mexican City; 85 Escape Border Prison

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Sept. 10) -- Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city. Farther east on the border, 85 inmates scaled the walls of a prison and escaped Friday in Mexico's biggest jail break in recent...

Mexican Mayor Killed, Massacre Suspects Arrested

MEXICO CITY (Sept. 8) -- Hooded gunmen killed the mayor of a small town in the northern Mexico state of San Luis Potosi on Wednesday, and prosecutors announced the arrest of seven suspects in the massacre of 72 migrants in August. President Felipe Calderon's office issued a statement saying he "energetically condemned"...

Report: 90 Percent of Drug War Guns Originate in US

(Sept. 7) -- A bloody, drug-fueled war is being waged just across the border in Mexico and a report out Tuesday finds that 90 percent of the guns traced from Mexican crime scenes since 2006 have originated in the United States. The report was released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group of more than 500 mayors from...