Border Patrol Agent Fatally Shoots Mexican Teen

Jun 9th 2010 – 7:26 AM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (June 9) -- The killing of a Mexican teen by a U.S. Border Patrol agent raised tensions between the U.S. and Mexico as President Felipe Calderon calls for better protection of migrants'...

In Coke's Old Jamaica Digs, Unease and Anger Prevail

Jun 3rd 2010 – 6:37 PM |AOL News

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (June 3) -- Like the rest of Jamaica, the neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens is in a state of suspense as soldiers continue their manhunt for Christopher "Dudus" Coke. Four days of...

Mexicans Differ Over National Guard Buildup

May 26th 2010 – 11:25 AM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (May 26) -- President Barack Obama's decision to dispatch 1,200 further National Guard troops to the Mexican border and spend $500 million to step up border patrols gets the approval of...

Baja Seeks Emergency Status After Earthquake

Apr 5th 2010 – 6:45 PM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (April 5) -- Residents and visitors of Mexicali, a bustling border city in the Mexican state of Baja California, and Calexico, Calif., the city just across the border, went about their...

Mexican Widows Fed Up by Constant Violence

Mar 31st 2010 – 5:16 PM |AOL News

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CIUDAD JUAREZ (March 31) -- Norma Ramos learned from the evening news in August that her ex-husband had been slain in front of his home in this rough, drug-ridden city across the Rio Grande from El...

10 Students Gunned Down in Mexico

Mar 30th 2010 – 7:47 PM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (March 30) -- As Mexico closed down for its annual celebration of Holy Week, officials reacted with anger and a degree of helplessness to the slayings of 10 students from a tiny...

Once Vibrant, Mexican City Now a Haven of Death

Mar 27th 2010 – 1:24 PM |AOL News

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (March 27) -- American teenagers flocked to the garish strip of Juarez bars just south of the Santa Fe International Bridge as recently as three years ago. It cost 25 cents to...

In Ciudad Juarez, Drugs Fuel a Murderous War

Mar 24th 2010 – 6:53 PM |AOL News

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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...

Experts: Americans Aren't Safe in Mexican Drug Wars

Mar 16th 2010 – 6:18 PM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (March 16) -- The killing Sunday of three people connected to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez undermines the popular notion that Americans are immune to the Mexican drug war,...

Billionaire Among Us: How Mexicans See Carlos Slim

Mar 13th 2010 – 11:05 AM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (March 13) -- How does a country battered by a lethal drug war and the worst recession since the 1930s react when one of its own, Carlos Slim Helu, is deemed by Forbes magazine to be the...

First Gay Marriages Celebrated in Mexico City

Mar 4th 2010 – 7:44 PM |AOL News

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MEXICO CITY (March 4) -- Dozens of happy couples lined up to file for marriage and adoption licenses at civil registry offices across Mexico's sprawling capital today as a law that permits gay...

Poverty Predicts Quake Damage Better Than Richter Scale

Feb 27th 2010 – 10:03 PM |AOL News

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(Feb. 27) -- Though an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile early Saturday was one of the strongest on record, the structural devastation and human toll is expected to be far smaller than the...

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