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| Mexico Dismantles Synthetic Drug Lab, Seizes Ton of Marijuana Latin American Herald Tribune With the seizures, security forces “dealt a heavy blow to drug sales and prevented organized crime from obtaining a significant quantity of illicit funds,” the secretariat said. Sinaloa is home to the drug cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fear and Loathing in the Island that Doesn't Exist Huffington Post (blog) Puerto Rico is a particularly alluring target for drug traffickers. If the South American cartels can get their drugs through the Caribbean and onto the island, the cargo can be moved into the US without customs interference. Puerto Rico is by culture ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Miss Bala' puts human face on Mexico's drug war GMA News Naranjo: "Yes, I saw this story about drugs and weapons smuggling and this beautiful young woman who was accused of working for a drug cartel. And then we started researching about how you can smuggle guns from the US to Mexico so easily. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The risks and rewards of helping Honduras MiamiHerald.com His take: The violence is primarily between gang members and drug cartels, who've moved in from Mexico. That said, Heifer avoids driving at night and holds meetings in villages, not cities. As the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Andrea Mitchell: Mitt Romney's Mexican Relatives 'Crossed the Border Illegally' NewsBusters (blog) The other interesting little fact is about the Mexican Romneys, those looking back at all of those records say that Mitt Romney should look back at the records because the Romneys that came back from Mexico to the United States, they crossed the border ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| LIFTING OF IMPORT DUTIES TO HELP BAJA BUSINESSES U-T San Diego They have argued that Baja California businesses lose many Mexican consumers who are enticed across the border to stores with greater variety and lower prices. “This will allow Mexican businesses to offer imported products at much more attractive ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| For expert on migration, a lifelong interest in it U-T San Diego A: New arrivals from Mexico dropped 60 percent from 2006 to 2010. The main reason for this drop is the weak US economy. The second-most-important factor is increased US border enforcement. Surveys conducted by the center show that more than 95 percent ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| News intern Poynter.org Newspaper Tree is looking for a talented pool of journalists to join the team and make this unique media project a sustained force for solid investigative journalism in the border communities of El Paso, TX, Southern New Mexico and Northern Mexico. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Time to wake up and face reality on boat policy Herald Sun Tragedies happen when you weaken border laws so recklessly that poor people figure $20000 and the danger of a short boat trip is worth the chance to live in a rich welfare state. That's why we've gone from no deaths at sea in the six years before Labor ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Look Behind the US Drop in Undocumented Immigration truthout A recent New York Times op-ed by Dowell Myers argues that we need to shift from an “immigration policy,” focused on border enforcement, to an “immigrant policy” focused on the integration of those who are already here. The argument is based on reports ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Digest STLtoday.com Quake rocks Mexico — A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday, shaking the state from the capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, to Tapachula on the border with Guatemala. The quake broke windows in Tuxtla ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Man arrested at border sentenced in IL attempted murder KPHO Phoenix He was sentenced to two years in prison on each count. Records revealed he was removed from the US through Hidalgo, Texas. Once released from jail, Toyayo-Morales will be sent back to Mexico and is now banned for life from becoming a US citizen. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US Border Patrol to name NM substation spot Houston Chronicle RUSSELL CONTRERAS, AP ANIMAS, NM (AP) — The US Border Patrol is set to announce its decision on a much debated substation planned for New Mexico's Bootheel. The agency is scheduled Friday to make public the location of the substation officials say ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mexico still safe for travel: Saskatoon professor 650 CKOM News Talk Radio Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs is urging against non-essential travel to that region, along with areas near the American border. However, there is no travel advisory for Mexico as a country. While Sanchez acknowledges the recent tragic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Keystone Pipeline: TransCanada considers early start on southern leg Vancouver Sun Valero Energy Corp. has 1600 workers currently expanding its Port Arthur, Texas refinery, which plans to replace declining volumes of heavy oil from Mexico and South America with Canadian crude, and remains committed, spokesman Bill Day said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Summary Of A Scandal AmmoLand.com (press release) That they allowed or even assisted in those guns crossing the US border into Mexico to “boost the numbers” of American civilian market firearms seized in Mexico and thereby provide the justification for more firearm restrictions on American citizens ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10 tons of marijuana seized along the 'Frontera Chica' KGBT-TV by Sergio Chapa More than 10 tons of marijuana is off the streets following raids along several drugs busts in an area known as the 'Frontera Chica' or 'Little Border.' Mexico's Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) confirmed the busts happened near ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| COLUMN: El Toro Viejo is a tough bull to judge The Statesman The walls are filled with everything you can buy at a souvenir shop in Tijuana, Mexico — all kinds of over-sized sombreros, plastic everything — Mexicano dolls, cactuses, chili peppers — and so on. The tables and chairs are brightly colored, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| General Pittard: Fort Bliss soldier's fatal shooting was isolated event El Paso Times It's not your small town Killeen, Texas, outside Fort Hood." The general said Fort Bliss soldiers are still banned from visiting Juárez, which was once teeming with US tourists before a drug cartel war began there in 2008. "We are encouraged by the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| ACE Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Below the Line He received an ACE Eddie nomination and an Emmy nomination for editing Michael Mann's mini-series Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel and received two additional ACE Eddie nominations for Law & Order: SVU and for editing the television series Tour of Duty. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Shlomo Klapper | Many flags; few facts The Daily Pennsylvanian Imagine if Mexican drug cartels started firing rockets at Texas and Arizona — how many rockets would the United States have to sustain before it responds? How many deaths would it take to prod our government to defend its civilians? The answer, I hope ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Cartel Trial Jurors Hear Details Of Teens' Deaths KTXS LAREDO, Texas (AP) - A federal jury heard graphic descriptions Friday of gruesome methods used by Zetas against a rival Mexican drug cartel. The San Antonio Express-News reports the testimony came in the trial in Laredo of Gerardo Chavez, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Laughery: Real Republicans will support legalizing marijuana Daily Camera Third, Republicans appreciate the merits of a strong and democratic Mexico, and we see that Mexico is coming dangerously close to failing for only one reason -- the drug cartels. Mexican drug cartels are responsible for over 40000 murders of Mexican ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Kidnapping tourists: Both terror tactic and financial gain Toronto Star In Mexico, kidnappings have risen more than 300 per cent in the last five years, according to a congressional report. They reached an all-time high of almost 18000 in 2011— a 32 per cent jump from the previous year — as drug cartels diversify ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Texas briefs LubbockOnline.com A federal jury heard graphic descriptions Friday of gruesome methods used by Zetas against a rival Mexican drug cartel. The San Antonio Express-News reported the claims came during the third day of testimony in the trial in Laredo of Gerardo Castillo ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Filmmaker focuses on violence in Mexico in documentary Monitor I'd like to think he's doing the right thing. The Mexican people are sick and tired of his policies. That's obviously very understandable. To his defense, a lot of the people are applauding his courage to take on the cartels. It wasn't the fact that he ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gulf Cartel launched kidnapping ring in Rio Grande Valley last year Monitor On June 12, Mission police responded to Hawthorn Suites, an upscale inn in Sharyland, regarding people selling drugs from one of the motel's rooms. Officers learned two men were in Room 158 and identified themselves as drug cartel members. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Mexico Arrests Key Gun Smuggler for Sinaloa Cartel Fox News The Sinaloa organization is the oldest drug cartel in Mexico and is led by Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, who was arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and pulled off a Hollywood-style jailbreak when he escaped from the Puente Grande maximum-security ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico Nabs Bosses from Rival Drug Cartels Latin American Herald Tribune MEXICO CITY – Regional bosses of two rival drug cartels were apprehended this week in separate operations, Mexican authorities said. Ariel Pineda, described as the chief operator for Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar) gang in the central ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Alleged Humboldt cocaine kingpin pleads not guilty Times-Standard An Arcata man suspected of having strong ties to Mexican drug cartels pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of possessing cocaine for sale while armed with a firearm and maintaining a residence for the storage of narcotics. Jose Antonio Romero Gomez, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Street Gangs to Replace Cartels as Drivers of Mexico's Violence InSight Crime Major trafficking groups like the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, which are responsible for most of Mexico's drug violence, will be replaced by super-powered street gangs in coming years, according to a report from Southern Pulse. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Saving lives in Mexico's murder capital CNN Juarez, known as Mexico's murder capital, has been marred with violence resulting from a turf war between rival drug cartels. A call comes in all of a sudden. The paramedics know there's no time to waste. They rush to the scene of a shooting, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican gangs using armored trucks to move contraband through desert Torque News "The cartels are fighting to control and protect these routes both for drug- and people-trafficking and in the opposite direction for the smuggling of weapons to Mexico, as well as to bring in a large quantity of merchandise illegally," an unidentified ... See all stories on this topic » |
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