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Mexico: US wavers in drug war with Calif. pot vote (AP)

October 8th, 2010

Street vendor Victor Manuel Jimenez, 44, poses for a portrait outside his home as he wears a hat that reads in Spanish 'Long live Mexico' in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. A two-week $5 million festival called Innovative Tijuana starts Thursday Oct. 7, 2010 in the border city across from San Diego and aims to showcase the city's economic prowess and cultural riches in an effort to demonstrate the city is no longer in the grip of warring drug traffickers. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - President Felipe Calderon said Thursday that a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana represents hypocrisy in U.S. drug policy for encouraging consumption while at the same time demanding…

Calderon: Mexico shows gains in security, economy (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

Mexico's Interior Secretary Jose Francisco Blake, right, hands the government's annual state of the nation report to Lower House President Francisco Ramirez Acuna at Congress in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon will give his annual state of the nation address on Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - President Felipe Calderon delivered his latest “state of the nation” report to Congress on Wednesday, saying Mexico has made gains in security and is enjoying its strongest economic…

Mexico captures reported drug lord ‘the Barbie’ (AP)

August 31st, 2010

In this image released by Mexico's Public Safety Department on Monday Aug. 30, 2010, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias 'the Barbie,'' is escorted by police officers in the state of Mexico, which borders the capital, Mexico City. Federal police on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, captured Valdez Villarreal, a Texas-born alleged drug kingpin, who faces trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.(AP Photo/Mexico's Public Safety Department)AP - Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “the Barbie,” is the third major suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months and a coup for…

Mexico: Cartels move beyond drugs, seek domination (AP)

August 5th, 2010

A soldier stands guard near a hearse (L) carrying the body of Ignacio AP - President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that Mexico’s cartels in many cases have moved beyond drugs as their main money-earner and are even trying to supplant the government in…

Mexican governor candidate killed, cartels blamed (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, center, reacts as his security cabinet stands around him while giving a statement to the media at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Monday, June 28, 2010. President Calderon is blaming drug cartels for the assassination of front-running gubernatorial candidate for the state of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre, (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Gunmen assassinated the front-running candidate for governor of a Mexican border state Monday in what President Felipe Calderon called an attempt by drug gangs to sway local and…

Mexican leader blames candidate’s killing on gangs (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Mexican Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont gives a news conference in Mexico City June 28, 2010. An opposition candidate pegged to win a July 4 gubernatorial election in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was killed by suspected drug hitmen on Monday in the latest sign drug gangs are trying to influence politics. Rodolfo Torre of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was killed with four aides in an ambush while he was on a campaign trip, Mont told reporters. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS)AP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon is blaming drug cartels for the assassination of a front-running gubernatorial candidate.


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Mexican president condemns Arizona immigrant law (AP)

April 27th, 2010

AP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday condemned Arizona’s tough new immigration law as discriminatory and warned that relations with the U.S. border state will suffer.

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Calderon: Most Mexico drug war dead are criminals (AP)

April 17th, 2010

In this photo taken April 9, 2010, a copy of a letter allegedly delivered by Sinaloa drug cartel members to residents is seen in Praxedis, Valle de Juarez, Mexico. Hundreds of families are fleeing the cotton-farming towns of the Juarez Valley, a stretch of border 50 miles east of Ciudad Juarez. In a new strategy, Mexican drug cartels seeking to minimize interference with their operations are using terror to empty the entire area. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - President Felipe Calderon insisted Friday that few innocent civilians have fallen victim to Mexico’s bloody drug war, saying nearly all those killed are people tied to cartels wrestling…

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