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Mexican mayor slain in drug-plagued northern state (AP)

September 24th, 2010

Soldiers guard the crime scene where Prisciliano Rodriguez, mayor of the Doctor Gonzalez municipality, was shot dead by gunmen at his ranch 50 kilometers, some 31 miles, east of Monterrey, northern Mexico, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. Rodriguez is the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than a month. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - Gunmen killed a town mayor near the drug-plagued industrial city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday, the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than…

Mexican mayor killed, massacre suspects arrested (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations September 8, 2010 in Washington, DC. Clinton said Wednesday that violent Mexican drug cartels were starting to look like an insurgency, in a charge rapidly rejected by Mexico.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Hooded gunmen killed the mayor of a small town in the northern Mexico state of San Luis Potosi on Wednesday, and prosecutors announced the arrest of seven suspects…

Ecuadorean survivor urges migrants to avoid Mexico (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

Forensic experts inspect the coffins containing the remains of 16 Hondurans who were killed in Mexico while trying to reach the U.S. border, before returning the bodies to family members in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. The bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants, who were allegedly killed by a Mexican drug cartel, were found within 100 miles of the U.S. border on Aug. 24. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)AP - One of two known survivors of a drug gang’s massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants urged others in an interview broadcast Thursday…

Mexico: Zetas gang ordered killing of mayor (AP)

August 24th, 2010

Federal policemen and explosive experts work at the site of a car bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez July 16, 2010. A Mexican drug cartel was responsible for a cell phone-detonated car bomb that killed four people in a city on the U.S. border, state security forces said. REUTERS/Alejandro BringasAP - The Zetas drug gang ordered the killing of a mayor in northern Mexico because he had disciplined police officers secretly working with the cartel, authorities said Tuesday.


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Mexican police free reporters nabbed by drug gang (AP)

July 31st, 2010

AP - Federal police rescued two kidnapped cameramen in northern Mexico on Saturday after five days in the custody of a drug gang.

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Mexico: Prison guards let killers out, lent guns (AP)

July 26th, 2010

Luis Vazquez Barragan, known as 'El 20,' an alleged member of the Mexican drug gang 'La Linea,' is escorted by police while presented to the press in Mexico City, Sunday July 25, 2010. According to police, Vazquez was detained in the border city of Ciudad Juarez during a raid on Friday July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings,…

Gunmen massacre 18 partygoers in northern Mexico (AP)

July 19th, 2010

A dark red stain is seen at a wall of a site marked as a crime scene by police at the entrance of a house where a party was interrupted by gunmen early Sunday in the town of Torreon, in the Mexican northern state of Coahuila, Sunday, July 18, 2010. The gunmen arrived at the party in several cars and opened fire without saying a word, the Coahuila state Attorney General's Office said in statement. According to the statement 17 people were killed and at least 18 wounded.(AP Photo)AP - The gunmen did not say a word as they jumped from their cars and stormed the private party. They simply opened fire. When they were done, 18 people…

Officials say gunmen kill 17 at party in Mexico (AP)

July 18th, 2010

A Mexican Federal Policeman keeps watch during the presentation to the press of alleged drug traffickers in June 2010, in Mexico City. Gunmen armed with machine guns shot dead at least 17 people on Sunday as they mowed down party-goers in a pre-dawn attack outside the northern Mexican city of Torreon, officials said.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)AP - Gunmen stormed a party in northern Mexico on Sunday and massacred 17 people, authorities said.


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Mexican town evacuated amid fears dam will burst (AP)

July 6th, 2010

A man tries to salvage wood from a destroyed home after Hurricane Alex hit the area in what is known as Playa Bagdad, about 22 miles (37 km.) east of Matamoros, northeastern Mexico, on the border with Texas,Thursday, July 1, 2010. Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - More than 18,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from a town in northern Mexico that was flooded after authorities opened a dam’s floodgates for fear it would overflow from…

Mexico: Gang leader says US consulate infiltrated (AP)

July 2nd, 2010

Jesus Ernesto Chavez, known as 'El Camello' stands as he is guarded by federal police officers during a presentation to the press, in Mexico City, Friday, July 2, 2010. According to the federal police Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - A U.S. investigation into the killing of a consulate worker in northern Mexico has found no evidence that she was involved in illegal activity.


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