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Mexican drug war stories: 92 news summaries

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(Newser) - President Obama began his first official Latin American tour with a visit to Mexico City today, the New York Times reports. Obama landed this afternoon for the first presidential visit to Mexico’s capital since the Clinton administration. He’ll meet with Felipe Calderón to discuss the economy,... More »

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Barack Obama • War on Drugs • Mexico City • Mexico • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Felipe Calderón

 Mexican Drug Bucks Ensnare 
 Texas County, Sheriff 

Border sheriff faces trial for clearing the way for drug traffickers

Apr 3, 09 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Starr County on the Texas border is enjoying boom times while the rest of the country is stuck in recession, the Los Angeles Times reports. The county—still one of America's poorest—lies at the center of the cross-border drug trade, and while residents acknowledge that illicit cash has long... More »

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Texas • corruption • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war • sheriff • Rio Grande

 Body of Fugitive 
 US Marshal 
 Found in Mexico 

Shot lawman was wanted for pawning government gun

Mar 27, 09 4:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The decomposing body of a US marshal wanted for stealing government property has been found dumped in a canal in Ciudad Juarez, CNN reports. Vincent Bustamente had been shot in the head execution-style, according to Mexican police. The El Paso officer had not been seen since he failed to show... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • El Paso • Ciudad Juarez • U.S. Marshals Service

ANALYSIS

NRA Wins
a Round on
Gun Control

Holder backs off on assault-rifle ban despite Mexico pleas

Mar 26, 09 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Attorney General Eric Holder has backed off calls to once again ban assault weapons after a strong blowback from the gun lobby, Newsweek reports. Mexico is pressuring the US to reinstate such a ban, since US assault rifles make up 90% of drug-cartel arsenals. But when Holder floated the idea... More »

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Mexico • gun control • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Max Baucus • assault rifles • assault weapons • Eric Holder • Obama administration

(Newser) - With the US recession hammering Mexico, the Mexican drug war frightening the US, and a free-trade tiff in the works, relations between the countries have gotten a tad frosty of late, the New York Times reports. In an effort to head off a full-blown crisis, Hillary Clinton is heading... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Mexico • Mexican drug war • foreign policy • drug cartel • Obama administration • President Obama

OPINION

 Prepare for Worst 
 as Mexico Crumbles 


Mar 24, 09 3:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico’s disastrous drug war, which threatens to send millions of refugees into the southern US, is a problem of our own making, Mark Krikorian writes in the National Review. But while America’s drug lust—and its burgeoning counterpart in Mexico itself—can’t be fixed, tighter border regulations... More »

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Mexico • Mexican border • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war • illegal immigration • drug cartel • border security

 Mexico Busts Drug Lord's Son 

Military says arrest of Sinaloa kingpin's son deals a heavy blow to cartel

Mar 20, 09 5:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mexican military has arrested the son of one of the country's most powerful drug barons, reports the Los Angeles Times. Vicente Zambada, 33, whose father is deputy head of the Sinaloa cartel, had risen through the ranks to become one of the cartel's top leaders and had ordered the... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Sinaloa drug cartel • drug traffickers

Soccer Offers
an Escape in Bloody Juárez

Mexicans fill stadium seats despite threats, drug cartel violence

Mar 19, 09 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even as the drug war claimed nine more lives in Ciudad Juárez last weekend, Mexicans filled the local soccer stadium to cheer on their team, the Indios. It’s perhaps the remaining safe bastion in the ravaged town. In May, when the Indios clinched promotion to the Mexican League’... More »

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sports • soccer • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Ciudad Juarez • Indios • Mexican soccer

Nine Bodies Discovered
Near Ciudad Juarez

Troops descend on Juarez in bid to end cartel violence

Mar 15, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican police yesterday discovered the bodies of seven men and two women in the desert south of Ciudad Juarez yesterday, CNN reports. The grisly find comes as increasing violence among the country's drug cartels continues to shatter Juarez and other border cities. The conflict has already claimed over 400 lives... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Ciudad Juarez • troops

 Drug Cartels Winning 
 Mexican Arms Race 

Traffickers using military-grade weapons to take on police

Mar 14, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican police are finding themselves hopelessly outgunned by drug cartels with military-grade weaponry, the Los Angeles Times reports. Authorities say the arms race is escalating rapidly as the cartels, competing with each other as well as with security forces, acquire grenade launchers, anti-tank rockets and other heavy weaponry of the... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • arms race • drug cartel • weapons • grenade

Mexican Drug Lord Makes Forbes Billionaire List

Guzman controls 20% of all cocaine traffic in Mexico, Colombia

Mar 13, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many of the world's richest people have lost their spots on Forbes' list of billionaires, but there's at least one head-turning new addition: the head of the Sinaloa cartel, currently embroiled in a Mexican drug war that's left 7,000 people dead. Joaquin Guzman, the 5-foot-tall drug trafficker known as... More »

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Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Forbes • Sinaloa drug cartel • Joaquin Guzman

 Mexican Cops 
 Find 5 Heads 
 in Coolers 

Ice boxes containing human heads were inscribed with threats, taunts

Mar 11, 09 1:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in central Mexico yesterday discovered five human heads in ice chests left by the side of a road, CNN reports. The heads—all male—had been severed only hours earlier, and the eyes of the victims were taped shut. The tops of the coolers were inscribed with taunts and... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • decapitation • drug cartel • Sinaloa drug cartel

(Newser) - As Mexico's drug war erupted in Ciudad Juarez, the bloody results inevitably ended up in one place—the city's overwhelmed morgue. Some 2,300 victims of violence rolled through its doors last year, reports the AP, a flood of death that has resulted in stacked cadavers and plans to double... More »

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murder • violence • Mexican drug war • decapitation • morgue • Ciudad Juarez

OPINION

 Mexican 
 Kidnappers 
 Menace Yanks 


Mar 8, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican drug gangs are increasingly targeting Americans, kidnapping them in border towns and, even more disturbingly, US cities like Las Vegas and even Atlanta, Mary A. Fischer writes in Men’s Journal. Ironically, higher post-9/11 border security and Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels has hurt drug sales, forcing competing... More »

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Mexico • kidnapping • Mexican border • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • US citizenship

 Drug Cartels' Latest Ploy: 
 Ultralight Planes 

Ultralight aircraft are the Mexican cartels' newest tactic

Mar 6, 09 3:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Mexican pot smugglers have come up with a new tool in their never-ending quest to outsmart US border patrols: ultralight aircraft, USA Today reports. An ultralight is a small plane resembling a scooter with a hang glider attached, and authorities have found several crashed or in mid-flight over the border... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexico • Mexican border • marijuana • Mexican drug war • Border Patrol • smuggler • aircraft • Bill Maher • Bill Maher Grid

 20 Killed in Mexican Prison Riot 

Troops sent in after drug gangs clash inside high-security prison

Mar 5, 09 4:26 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 20 prisoners died yesterday as rival Mexican drug gangs clashed in a prison outside Ciudad Juarez, CNN reports. Hundreds of police and soldiers put down the uprising after two hours. Fighting began as spouses were leaving at the end of conjugal visits, officials said. The high-security prison is... More »

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prison • Mexico • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • riots • Ciudad Juarez

 Mexican Army 
 Sweeps Into Juarez 

Mexico pushes to retake control of border city from warring cartels

Mar 4, 09 5:36 AM CST
(Newser) - Thousands of Mexican troops are pouring into Ciudad Juarez as the government tries to prevent total anarchy in the country's most violent city, reports Reuters. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the border city during the last year as drug cartels—in league with corrupt cops—battle... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • Mexican army • drug cartel • Ciudad Juarez • drug traffickers

 Just in Time 
 for Spring Break: 
 Cancun Torture Probe 

Cancun, like Mexico, 'is at war,' says local editor

Mar 2, 09 6:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Those headed to Cancun for spring break might want to hold off just a tad before slathering on Mexican suntan oil—while authorities investigate torture and murder charges against the ousted local police chief. Mexico's out-of-control drug war is seeping into nearly every community in the nation—including one of... More »

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torture • Mexico • murder • corruption • Mexican drug war • vacation • Cancun • college student • spring break

US Gun Dealers Arm Mexican Drug Wars

Softer American laws lead to cross-border flood of weapons

Feb 26, 09 8:26 AM CST
(Newser) - More than 6,000 Mexicans died in drug wars last year, and violence has surged recently as gangs battle the police and each other. But because of Mexico's strict gun laws, cartels have to get their weaponry from elsewhere: the United States. Ninety percent of guns recovered in Mexico originated... More »

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Mexico • United States • Mexican drug war • smuggler • border • assault rifles • gun laws • Bill Maher Grid

 Mexican Mayor Assassinated 

Just as US arrests 750 in crackdown on Mexican drug cartel

Feb 26, 09 5:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The mayor of Vista Hermosa in Mexican President Felipe Calderon's home province was ambushed and killed by gunmen last night, CNN reports. The mayor, who survived an assassination attempt last week, is the second mayor in the province to be killed in eight months. The assassination came as US Attorney... More »

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Mexico • Felipe Calderon • mayor • Mexican drug war • assassination • drug cartel • Sinaloa drug cartel

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