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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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06/01/12 Calderon supporters losing faith in president Source: Aljazeera.com Just a month before Mexicans cast their ballots, it would appear that current president Felipe Calderon's party is likely to lose the presidency.
05/31/12 Mexico's Drug Corruption Arrests: Why Soldiers Make... Source: Time When Mexican President Felipe CalderÃ³n sent his army after the country's powerful drug cartels six years ago, we all understood the rationales.
05/31/12 Calderon announced a public-private project to bid... Source: Convergencia Latina - Argentina President, Felipe CalderÃ³n, announced a public-private project to bid optical fiber lengths involving the federal government and the operator that wins the tender.
05/31/12 The Left Makes Noise in Mexico Source: Counterpunch You can blame it on those damn students.
05/30/12 A Tough Choice for Mexico Source: Tapped It may barely make a blip on our political radar screen, but on July 1 Mexico is slated to elect a new president for the next six years.

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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