An anticrime group says the abduction rate is second only to Colombia's. There is disagreement on victim numbers. The numbers are disputed, but one thing is certain: You are more likely to be abducted …
Mexico Names New Prosecutor in U.S. Border Murders
Mexico appointed a special prosecutor on Friday to investigate the killings over the past decade of hundreds of women in a city on the Texas border. More than 300 women have been killed, one third of …
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Massacre Still Casts Its Shadow in Mexico
'98 Killings Revisited as Violence Grows. Viviana woke at 4 a.m. to the sound of a struggle outside her room. "Don't move or I'll kill you!" she remembers a man yelling that morning in 1998, and she …
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Mexico Hit by Wave of Drug Gang Killings
Mexico has been hit by an unusually high number of drug-related killings this year, with at least 18 people gunned down in the past week in gangland-style hits blamed partly on turf wars over drug …
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Mexico Arrests Alleged Drug Trafficker
The Mexican Army announced Tuesday that its troops had arrested Javier Torres Felix, an alleged leader of one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in western Mexico. Torres Felix, reputedly a …
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Gunmen Free 29 Inmates From Mexico Jail
Gunmen dressed in military fatigues burst into a jail in western Mexico on Monday and freed 29 inmates, some of whom were linked to one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, the police said. "It was …
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France, Mexico Put Armed Guards in Flight
Members of France's elite intervention squad are already riding undercover on some trans-Atlantic flights, while a continent away, Mexican security agents also began boarding planes before a new U.S. …
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U.S.-Mexico Border Adjusts to Terror Alert
The United States' heightened terror alert didn't seem to slow traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border before Christmas as travelers and shoppers crossed into the United States. In Reynosa, across the …
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Mexico Not Set for Bioterrorism Act
Only half of Mexico's food exporters to the United States have met requirements under a new US bioterrorism law, Mexican officials say. "The low figure was due to Mexican exporters' tacit rejection" …
Mexico Issues Warrants for 3 'Dirty War' Suspects
The move is seen as a signal of government's intent to prosecute those allegedly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of dissidents. In a move to restart its prosecution of suspects in Mexico's …
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