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Days after big names launched the Tijuana Innovadora, grisly slayings provided a reminder of Mexico's drug war. Still, the city is determined to shrug off [...]

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Here are a few of the latest developments in Mexico's drug war. In Oaxaca, the mayor-elect of a small town was shot and killed . Antonio Jimenez Banos, 47, [...]

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650 drug killings this year in and around Monterrey, more than in the past four years combined for the region, which is one of Mexico's worst drug war [...]

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to shape the response to Mexico's drug war than the years of steady bloodshed in places like Ciudad Juarez, the poor, desert factory city to the west. [...]

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And what effect would that have on the Mexican drug wars, in which the death toll is nearing 30000? Again, a scholarly hedge, given the difficulties in [...]

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Against the backdrop of ever-increasing drug violence in Mexico, I have an op-ed at USA Today Online titled “US in slumber as Mexico drug war rages. [...]

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Tijuana” festival is a $5 million effort by the Mexican government to remake the city's image after being dirtied by Mexico's three-year drug war. [...]

28 Mar 2010 Violence in Mexico has escalated dramatically in recent years. In 2009 alone, at least 6500 people were killed in apparent drug-related [...]

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has moved strongly against drug trafficking, but many experts say only reform of the police and judiciary can stem [...]

The timeline of the most relevant events in the Mexican Drug War is set out below. March 17 - Drug lord Zhenli Ye Gon relieved of $213 million USD in Mexico City.[5] [...]

Mexico drugs war - as violence spirals, so does spending on security Some financial analysts warn the drug war could take a toll on the economy as the [...]

Look who's coming to Tijuana. The world's richest man. Three Nobel Prize winners (including Al Gore !). A pair of Mexican film stars. An astronaut. This border city [...]

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The difference is that instead of the money going to war lords in mexico, it would stay in the US. I am so sick of this garbage! Legalize drugs NOW! The cost of enforcement FAR outweighs the increase in cost of social care we would [...]

Mexico: Mexico drug war toll: 10th Mayor Slain, Another. September 27, 2010 | Author: admin | Posted in drug news. MEXICO DRUG WAR TOLL: 10TH MAYOR SLAIN, ANOTHER WOUNDED. MEXICO CITY — As if Mexicans needed more evidence that criminal [...]

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Poor Mexicans Easy Scapegoats In Vicious Drug War · Mexican writer Monica Lavin has won the 2010 Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize – awarded by the Mexico City government – for “Yo la peor” (I, the Worst). [...]

The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels who fight for regional control, and between the drug cartels and the Mexican government, which [...]

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Here are a few of the latest developments in Mexico's drug war: Friday, July 9. In Ciudad Juarez, sixteen people were killed in various incidents across the city. Among the dead was an 85-year old man, and another man who was apparently [...]

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Obama's comment were meant to rebuke Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments at a Council on Foreign Relations event Wednesday, where she said that Mexico's drug war was beginning to look like Colombia in the 1980s. [...]

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Mexico Drug War Update | StoptheDrugWar.org: "Across Mexico, at least 34 people were killed during a 48-hour period. In the isolated Durango town of San Jose de La Cruz, a firefight between rival drug traffickers left fourteen dead. [...]

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That made the Monterrey dumping ground the second biggest mass grave uncovered in Mexico's drug wars. It appeared that most of the victims had been executed in groups, their bodies dumped into newly dug pits, and in most cases then set [...]

Ottawa Citizen is your online source of news on Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and around the world. Find local stories happening around Ontario. Read world headline news. Watch local news stories in multimedia.,Tourists have become targets in [...]

The Mexican War - Conference Tuesday October 19, 7:00pm SFU Harbour Centre; 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver ; Room 1900 Free admission A conference with professor and journalist, Carlos Fazio. Carlos Fazio is one of the most distinguished intellectuals in Latin America . As an international analyst [...]

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Once an oasis of calm, Mexico's richest city has become a central battleground in the country's increasingly bloody drug war as cartels open fire on city streets and throw grenades onto busy highways. [...]

in the Failed State. Private action has a much greater probability of making gains in peace and stability than a government that is basically in a state of industrial capture ("industry" of course being the illicit trade in drugs, an activity that gains its massive margins from the arbitrary dec [...]

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Washington's failure to tighten border security or discourage illegal drug use has helped fuel the ongoing violence and instability in northern Mexico. [...]