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Sinaloa cartel, Zetas push Mexico's drug violence to new depths
CULIACAN, Mexico — The cartel henchman nicknamed "El Loco" was reported behind the latest atrocity in Mexico's ever-more-depraved drug war: mutilating 49 people and piling their bodies — heads, hands and feet missing — by the side of a...Tags: Mexico, Civil Rights, Wars and Interventions, Blackmail and Extortion, Drug Trafficking
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Mexico political party suspends former official in drug-money scandal
World NowMEXICO CITY -- The political party expected to win Mexico's upcoming presidential election sought Wednesday to distance itself from a former high-ranking official embroiled in a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scandal. Tomas Yarrington, a former... -
SPECIAL REPORT: Mexico's Zetas rewrite drug war in blood
Reuters(http://link.reuters.com/vac48s) By Ioan Grillo VALLECILLO, Mexico, May 23 (Reuters) - Mexican government forces had bottled up a band of enemy fighters in this tiny village late last year, but feared they would escape into the dusty, rock-strewn hills....Tags: Armed Forces, Restraint of Trade, Radio, United Nations, Blackmail and Extortion
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Special Report: Mexico's Zetas rewrite drug war in blood
ReutersVALLECILLO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican government forces had bottled up a band of enemy fighters in this tiny village late last year, but feared they would escape into the dusty, rock-strewn hills. So more than 600 soldiers and federal police closed in...Tags: Armed Forces, Restraint of Trade, Radio, Blackmail and Extortion, United Nations
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U.S. seeks to seize property of ex-Mexican official
Reuters(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday moved to seize millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Texas that a former governor of a Mexican state is accused of buying with payments from drug cartels and from criminal extortion and bribery schemes....Tags: Mexico, Regional Authority, Bribery, Blackmail and Extortion, Organized Crime
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US seeks to seize property of ex-Mexican official
ReutersBy Jim Forsyth and Jared Taylor May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday moved to seize millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Texas that a former governor of a Mexican state is accused of buying with payments from drug cartels and from...Tags: Mexico, Bribery, Regional Authority, Blackmail and Extortion, Organized Crime
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Mexican army says Zetas behind killing of 49 in northern Mexico
World NowMexican officials said top leaders of the Zetas gang ordered the killings of 49 people whose mutilated bodies were dumped in northern Mexico last weekend.... -
Dozens of bodies, many mutilated, dumped in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities responding to an anonymous tip discovered about 50 mostly mutilated bodies dumped on the side of a highway between Monterrey and the U.S. border, a region where rival gangs are battling for control over a...Tags: Mexico, Prosecution, Drug Trafficking, Communist Party, Elections
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UPDATE 1-More than 40 dismembered bodies dumped on Mexican highway
Reuters* Killings follow recent atrocities by drug gangs * Attack shows hallmarks of cartel violence (Adds details on body count, background) MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - Authorities found the dismembered bodies of at least 40 people stuffed into bags...Tags: Mexico, Highway Transportation, Murder
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UPDATE 2-More than 40 people slaughtered in Mexico atrocity
Reuters* Killings follow recent atrocities by drug gangs * Attack shows hallmarks of cartel violence (Adds background, details, changes dateline) CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico, May 13 (Reuters) - Suspected drug gang killers dumped the mutilated bodies of more...Tags: Mexico, Felipe Calderon, Murder, Highway Transportation
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UPDATE 3-Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico
Reuters* Killings follow recent atrocities by drug gangs * Official says Zetas drug gang claims responsibility * Missing heads and hands complicate identification (Updates with death toll at 49; adds details, comments) By Luis Ochoa CADEREYTA JIMENEZ,...Tags: Mexico, Restraint of Trade, Corporate Crime, Massacres, Felipe Calderon
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UPDATE 4-Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico
Reuters* Killings follow recent atrocities by drug gangs * Official says Zetas drug gang claims responsibility * Missing heads and hands complicate identification (Adds details on bodies, analyst comment) By Luis Ochoa CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico, May 13...Tags: Mexico, Restraint of Trade, National Government, Corporate Crime, Massacres
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