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Six Americans killed in Mexico’s drug war city (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - Gunmen have killed six U.S. citizens in separate attacks since Saturday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. consulate said on Thursday, as Mexico struggles…

Witness: Attack at Mexico rehab center kills 13 (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Two soldiers watch 134 tonnes of marijuana burning on October 20, in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico. In the latest violence, thirteen retirees were shot and killed in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP.(AFP/File/Francisco Vega)AP - A client at a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana says a gang of armed men gunned down 13 recovering addicts there.


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Mexico: 13 dead in massacre at Ciudad Juarez party (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new…

Gunmen kill 13 in massacre at a party in Mexico (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new…

Mexico to up security in border city after blasts (AP)

August 29th, 2010

An unidentified migrant from Honduras waits for a northern bound train during his journey toward the US-Mexico border on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, Saturday Aug. 28, 2010. On Tuesday 72 Central and South American migrants were found executed by a Mexican drug cartel within 100 miles of the U.S. border. (AP Photos/Marco Ugarte)AP - Mexico’s government on Sunday promised to increase security after a series of explosive devices were detonated in the border city of Reynosa, and officials said they would step…

Gangs blamed for killing 3 with US consulate tie (AP)

March 15th, 2010

Soldiers patrol a crime scene where a crashed car sits in Ciudad Juarez, Sunday, March 14, 2010.  A U.S. consulate employee and her husband were shot to death Saturday in their car near the Santa Fe International bridge linking Ciudad Juarez with El Paso, Texas, and their baby was found unharmed in the back seat, according to Vladimir Tuexi, a spokesman for Chihuahua state prosecutors' office.  (AP Photo)AP - Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a…

3 with ties US consulate killed in Mexican city (AP)

March 14th, 2010

View of the US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico on March 2. Suspected drug cartel AP - Officials say three people with ties to the American consulate were killed in a Mexican border city.


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