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| DRUG
WAR: 14 mutilated bodies found in minivan near Nuevo Laredo Long Beach Press-Telegram The bodies were found on Tuesday. Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, is a stronghold of the Zetas drug cartel. It has been the scene of vicious turf battles between the Zetas its former ally, the Gulf cartel. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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challenging Sheriff Parkey Denton Record Chronicle He wants to use the resources of the Denton County Sheriff's Office to cooperate with other county agencies and work with residents to improve communications; crime prevention education; mentoring programs; anti-drug, alcohol and bullying programs; ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UPI
NewsTrack TopNews UPI.com Y., also briefed by Sullivan, said Tuesday interviews by Secret Service investigators in Colombia would help address concerns any of the women had ties to organized crime or drug cartels. The youngest of the women was 20 years old, he said. See all stories on this topic » |
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of the deadliest South American drug gangs feared to be joining
forces Catholic Online The Zetas, in particular are a brutal Mexican paramilitary drug cartel that has seized control of large parts of rural northern Guatemala to seize drug-trafficking routes from South America to the United States. Members of the Maras gangs are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drugs:
The Debate Goes Mainstream Huffington Post (blog) The only beneficiaries of prohibition are the drug cartels. Forty years of strenuous efforts have failed to reduce the production and consumption of illicit drugs. Worse, in Mexico and Central America, prohibition-related violence and corruption have ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The
Long, Long Sleep of Watchdogs American Spectator Arm Drug Cartels, in Mexico to spread Death and Chaos that I CAN USE for my own ends. I would Sever ties with Traditional Allies, and turn a blind eye to those who wish us harm. I would tear down everything that was GOOD, and replace it with something ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Top
Dominican official confirms arrest of Mexican cartel chief's
pilot Dominican Today The pilot of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzmán, head of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of the world's powerful drug lords, for whom the United States offers a US$30.0 million reward, has been arrested in the Dominican Republic, the Presidency's Adviser on Narcotics ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Savages
Trailer: Oliver Stone Tackles the Drug Trade The Hollywood Gossip From director Oliver Stone comes Savages, a thriller caught between two worlds: The medicinal marijuana world of San Diego and the cartel-ruled universe of Mexico. Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson play marijuana “dealers” who buy in bulk for patients at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Wake-Up Call for Manufacturing Stephen M. Ross School of Business “More of those types of jobs have followed low-skill manufacturing to Asia than initially estimated,” says Kapuscinski. But Mexico isn't an easy fix. Drug cartel violence along the border has made moving goods, people, and services more difficult. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| People
walk over a floor displaying empty bullet shells at an art exhibition
... Reuters AlertNet Authorities in Mexico have complained about the flood of weapons coming into their country from the United States, which they say facilitates the deadly war among drug cartels, causing more than 50000 drug-related killings over the past five years. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TOURIES:
Unknown Mortal Orchestra on strip clubs, drugs, and chicken
outfits ChartAttack The band have taken some time off from touring to write and record their sophomore album, so I caught up with Ruban to hear all about their tour antics and their experience down in Mexico for Festival NRMAL. Right now you're on a break from touring, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Guns,
deaths and money in the USA DAWN.com For example, around 45000 people were killed in Mexico during the country's deadly drug-cartel wars in the last five years; most of them were killed by firearms. And according to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Drugs, Firearms and Explosives, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| King
visits Webster City Daily Freeman Journal Darrell Issa (R-CA) on investigating the government's involvement in supplying arms to Mexican drug cartels in the "Fast and Furious" operation. After the event, King responded to a question about the temperament of the voters. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tennessee
Pushes Hostile Immigration Legislation Vanderbilt Orbis While Americans mostly think of Mexican aliens as poverty-stricken immigrants illegally coming to the United States, thousands of upper and upper-middle class Mexicans have come to the United States in increasing numbers since the war against drug ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Twitter
Saves Lives: Johannesburg Carjacking Victim Rescued Via Tweets, Top 5
... International Business Times Twitter accounts have been created to warn Mexican patrons about real-time attacks and risk zones surrounding drug cartel wars near the Texas border, according to Quarterly Americas. 3. In 2009 actress Demi Moore received a disturbing tweet from a user ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Movie
Buzz: 'Savages' movie trailer released on YouTube promises
intensity Examiner.com Ben and Chon face terrible odds and take on a Mexican drug cartel in order to rescue O from possible death. The story is told by the O character, but that does not mean she lives throughout the movie. You can check out the official movie trailer of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| April
9 Open Line Jacksonville Journal Courier The latest batch of praise is for his handling of Iran, Korea, reducing AIDS in Africa, and helping fight the Mexican drug war. Here's the truth: After 9/11, Iran held the largest sympathy vigil in the Muslim world. Bush turned around and called them ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Savages
is a High Worth Riding Movies With Butter (blog) ... money, drug wars and drug politics in Savages. The trailer for Savages captivated my interest. The story is told as a flashback from the perspective of the kidnapped girl, Blake Lively, whose two boyfriends must face off against the Mexican cartel, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| The
U.S. war on drug cartels in Mexico is a deadly failure — War in
... By News Sources Mark Karlin writes: On March 29, 2012, William R. Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (in other words, Hillary Clinton's point person on drug issues), testified before ... War in Context | ||
| Borderland
Beat: 'War on women' in Mexico Described as Growing By Buggs Violence against women in Mexico grew worse during the country's war against the drug cartels, according to the preliminary findings of a recent fact-finding delegation led by two Nobel laureates. The delegation from the Nobel Women's ... Borderland Beat | ||
| Evidence
Suggests Zetas & MS-13 Pact To Control Drug Trade By Staff Top Story — Guatemalan authorities say there is evidence that Mexico's Zetas drug cartel and Central America's Mara Salvatruchas (MS-13) have formed a pact to control drug-trafficking routes from South America to the United States. Today in Latin America | ||
| Why
Latin America is looking at legalizing cocaine By admin In Mexico alone, more than 50000 people have perished in a violent campaign against narcotics that began five years ago, when President Felipe Calderón threw down the gauntlet in a do-or-die battle against Mexico's mighty drug cartels. The Beckley Foundation | ||
| The
US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure
... By Tomas tomas Easily and Quickly Stay informed - What is happening in the Hispanic/Latino world? For over six years I have redefined Hispanic and Latino news. HispanicTips explores, organizes and shares the news to easily empower you. HispanicTips | ||
| Voter
Fraud - White Man In DC Offered AG Holder's Ballot ... By Rob "I'll be back Faster than you can say Furious,” the young man quips on his way out, a nice poke at Holder's Fast and Furious scandal involving American weapons illegally sold by the Department of Justice to Mexico's drug cartels. You'll also ... J O S H U A P U N D I T | ||
| [WATCH]
Trailer #1 for Oliver Stone's SAVAGES | A FISTFUL OF ... By Dominic Pink ... Winslow's 2010 crime novel, tells the story of two small-time Californian pot dealers (Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch) whose mutual girlfriend (Blake Lively) is kidnapped in an attempt to strong-arm them into working with a Mexican drug cartel. A FISTFUL OF CULTURE | ||
| CIA
and Pentagon Plan for Worse Case in Mexico, page 1 By holywar666 The American CIA and Pentagon planners wonder if Mexico will implode and lose the country to drug cartels. We face the possibility of having the 11th largest country in the world being ruled by vicious drug cartels next door to our country. AboveTopSecret.com Hot Topics | ||
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political form of reefer madness | CalWatchDog By Steven Greenhut The best answer would be to eliminate the sham altogether by legalizing marijuana, which would provide a tax windfall and take a bite out of the Mexican drug cartel profits. It's not as if pot smokers can't easily buy marijuana on the black ... CalWatchDog | ||
| New
Art Exhibit Highlights Mexico Narco-Violence By MTV Tr3s There is no denying that violence in Mexico is at an all-time high. In the past five years, nearly 50000 of its citizens have been shot and killed by drug gangs. Well now, artists in Mexico City are channeling those stats into a provocative new ... Blogamole | ||
| Tiny
Mexican newspaper leads the fight for truth amid the drugs
war By guardian.co.uk Río Doce has to steer a fine line when reporting the drugs war - unearthing the truth without prompting revenge. ... 1 similar tweet. predatorbdu PredatorBDU Mexican Newspaper grows some little but still living cajones to report on drug cartels ... Topsy - Top 100 |
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| The
US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure (Photo: Mark Karlin) This is the third article in a Truthout series on viewing US immigration and Mexican border policies through a social justice len... truth-out.org/.../8371-the-us-war-on-drug-cartels-in-mexico-is... | ||
| Mexican
Drug Cartel Violence Hits Home | The Way Out Mexican drug cartel activity is already bringing its violence into the US; at least three murders in southern states have been blamed on cartels in the last few. thewayoutrecovery.com/.../drug-cartel-violence-hitting-home/ | ||
| The
US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure - Care2
... On March 29, 2012, William R. Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (in other words, ... www.care2.com/news/member/451276626/3185857 | ||
| The
War on Drugs in Mexico Is Unwinnable; It's a War for Drug
... In the past few years, since Mexican President Calderon took office in 2006, and signed on as a "partner" with the US in "eradicating" the drug cartels, at least ... blog.buzzflash.com/node/13421 |
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| Monarch
butterfly migration appears to be down KSAT San Antonio DALLAS (AP) — Springtime is prime time for watching the monarch butterflies that flutter from Mexico through Texas as they make their annual northbound journey. But the monarchs are dwindling. The Mexican monarch population was down 30 percent this ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Prostitutes
add to woes for mayor-elect -- and New Mexico town msnbc.com (blog) Through what the complaint described as a "pyramid scheme," Salinas and his alleged cohort with EnviroSystems are accused of trying to bill Sunland Park, a town of about 14000 near the borders of Texas and Mexico, for "night life" expenses during the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ex-Texas
FBI agent gets prison in NYC for lying WGME President George W. Bush visited the US-Mexico border to tout a guest worker program for immigrants. One year ago: A man armed with several weapons opened fire in a crowded shopping mall in the Netherlands, killing six people before committing suicide. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Skokie
man held in slaying outside Texas pool hall Chicago Tribune A man charged with a murder outside a pool hall in El Paso, Texas, was arrested Saturday afternoon in Skokie, prosecutors said. Local fugitive apprehension officers arrested Charles R. Jones, 27, at a hotel in the 3300 block of West Touhy Avenue, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The
life and career of Anthony Shadid Haaretz They took a boat to Mexico, where they smuggled themselves across the border and crossed the river in the dark of night into Texas. They finally traveled to Oklahoma, where the family was waiting. Shadid weaves the two stories together into a tapestry: ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Judge:
World Court Is 'Potent Force' for Peace Texas Lawyer The United States also failed to obey a 2004 World Court decision in Mexico v. United States of America, in which the World Court ruled that US courts should reconsider the sentences of Mexican nationals facing execution because the United States ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| April
9 — Today in history Kewanee Star Courier In 1947, a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas claimed 181 lives. In 1959, NASA presented its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Three
Republicans run in US Representative District 34 primary Victoria Advocate She's served on civic boards like the Texas Council of Community, Mental Health and Mental Retardation Centers and the Healthy Communities of Brownsville. Bradshaw, 37, ran for Congress in 2010 as a tea party member. She was born in Matamoros, Mexico, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| SpaceX
Looks to Build Commercial Spaceport in Texas at Parabolic
... By Doug Messier The proposed vertical launch area site is currently undeveloped and is located directly adjacent to the eastern terminus of Texas State Highway 4 (Boca Chica Boulevard) and approximately 3 miles north of the Mexican border on the Gulf ... Parabolic Arc | ||
| The
Juke Box that Rocks | Delilah's Chicago By admin Femme fatale Maria Schneider talks a down on his luck ex-con into pulling of the heist of an incoming heroin shipment at the Texas/Mexico border. As a part of the deal, Grant must also kill the man transporting the drugs. But the deal goes sour ... Delilah's Chicago |
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| Customs
agents seize $3 Million in marijuana at Texas-Mexico
border PHARR — Customs officers made a large drug bust at the Texas-Mexico border yesterday. Agents who were inspecting a shipment of produce at the Pharr ... www.kmsstv.com/.../customs-agents-seize-3-million-in-mariju... | ||
| BORDER
CROSSINGS ON TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS The border between the United States and Mexico is 1954 miles long. The Rio Grande River makes up 1240 miles of the border—between Texas and Mexico. www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/.../Borders(2012).pdf | ||
| Texas
rep. demands Mexico pay for services to illegals | Times 247 Texas rep. demands Mexico pay for services to illegals Texas State Representative Lyle Larson ... Deported migrants climb a fence at the U.S.- Mexico border. times247.com/.../texas-rep-demands-mexico-pay-for-services-t... |
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