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Counting the Cost - The cost of the 'war on drugs'
Counting the Cost - The cost of the 'war on drugs' por aljazeeraenglishFrom the farmers to the traders, the cartels to the consumers, we assess the efecctiveness and the economics of the 'war on drugs'.
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Drug war ghosts
By Tomas BravoReutersThe memory is still fresh. I close my eyes and I can feel the tension. First the explosions… then the screams… then the silence.The trickles of blood on the concrete make their way...
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Virtual Therapy Helps Residents of a Shell-shocked Juarez
Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York TimesA patient in Ciudad Juárez demonstrating treatment in which scenes related to a previous traumatic experience are viewed.By KARLA ZABLUDOVSKYNY TIMESCIUDAD...
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Cartel Aerial Drops Thousands of Flyers in Culiacán; Blames Governor for Killing
by Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatA departure from procedures typically used by cartels to convey messages was used Tuesday as thousands of flyers were aerial dropped on the Sinaloa city of...
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Mexico drug war displaces families in Sinaloa highlands
In Mexico, at least 1,500 Sinaloa families in the Sierra Madre highlands have fled fighting between the Zetas gang and the Sinaloa drug cartel in the last month.Members of the Hernandez family fled...
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"Knights Templar" Drug Gang attacks Mexico PepsiCo subsidiary again
APPolice in southern Mexico say assailants have burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, hours after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks...
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Drug War Key Issue in Mexico Elections
Phoenix, AZ (written by Daniel Gonzalez/Arizona Republic) -- As Mexicans prepare to choose a new president one month from today, the election has turned into a referendum of sorts on President Felipe...
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Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #12
By David Kuhn and Robert BunkerSmall Wars JournalMexican Cartel Tactical Note #12: Forensics of Recovered Weapons from Piedras Negras Tactical Engagement Between Los Zetas and GATE (Grupo de Armas y...
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Mexican Army seizes 2 tons of marijuana in Zacatecas state
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA Mexican Army road patrol unit seized a total of 2.2 metric tons of marijuana and a quantity of weapons and munitions in Zacatecas state Friday, according to Mexican news...
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3 die in Ciudad Victoria gun battle
By Chris CovertRantburg.comThree unidentified armed suspects were killed in a gunfight with Mexican security forces in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas late Thursday morning, according to several Mexican...
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Mexican federal police commander found brutally slain
Photo: LineaDirectaThe charred body of a federal police commander was found with signs of torture and asphyxiation in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said Saturday.The corpse of...
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Mexico suspends, probes judges of key drug cases
Judge Jesus Guadalupe LunaAPMexican court authorities have suspended two judges while investigators look into possible irregularities.The Federal Judiciary Council says it is temporarily suspending...
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For Mexico’s middle class, drug war deepens trust deficit
By Nick MiroffWashington PostBy many measures, this country has made great strides in recent decades toward becoming a middle-class society, with broader access to education, consumer goods and...
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Mexico’s missing: collateral damage of narco-violence
MARINA JIMÉNEZMEXICO CITY — The Globe and MailThey are ordinary, middle-class Mexicans – computer technicians, police officers and engineers – who went to work one day and never came home. They are...
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Arizona: 5 Bodies Found in Burned Out Vehicle Likely Tied to Cartels
This image provided Saturday June 2, 2012, by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, shows the vehicle where five dead bodies burned were found inside in Pinal County's Vekol Valley area, west of Casa...
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Mayhem in Nuevo Leon: 7 die
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of three armed suspects were shot and killed in a shootout with Nuevo Leon state police agents Saturday in Montemorelos municipality, according to Mexican news...
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TJ: Authorities Seize 90K USD of 'The Engineer'
Borderland BeatTijuana, BC. A total of $ 90 000 USD, presumably generated by drug sales in the East Los Angeles, California, were seized on Saturday in this city to a man identified as Cardenas Sosa...
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Gunmen kill 11 in Torreon drug rehabilitation center
Gunmen shot dead 11 people and wounded at least nine others at a rehab center in northern Mexico on Sunday in the latest bloody episode in a brutal turf war between drug gangs.Dead bodies were strewn...
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Drug traffickers going coastal as they use boats to sneak drugs into Texas
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection crew navigates a 33-foot Secure-Around-Flotation-Equipped boat while on patrol near Corpus Christi. SAFE boats are used to pursue and board vessels in rough waters....
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Calderon Awards DEA Merit of Honor
Borderland BeatDEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart became one of the first foreign officials in history to receive Mexico’s Merit of Honor from President Felipe Calderon for her leadership and...
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