"That made him part of an unprecedented new trend: Mexican police officers claiming safe haven across the border in America, because they claim their own colleagues cannot protect them - or might even be trying to kill them."Britain's Telegraph reports on the newest trend...
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Protesting against army operations against drug gangs hundreds of Mexicans blocked roads and bridges into the United States on Tuesday. The officials claimed that protest has been organized by drug traffickers. "Three border crossings from Juarez to El Paso were blocked by...
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" CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Shadowy vigilante groups are threatening Mexico's drug gangs near the U.S. border in retaliation for a wave of murders and kidnappings that killed 1,600 people in this city alone last year. One group in the border city of Ciudad Juarez...
The Juarez drug cartel operating in US-Mexico is fighting a turf war for control of Chihuahua state and its key drug routes to the United States with the Sinaloa cartel, from the neighbouring state...
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" CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Twelve-year-old Alexia Belen Moreno was afraid living in her father's house in Ciudad Juarez, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody war. She begged to move in with her mother...
An article in the Sun News describes how violence in Mexico is heading north of the border: By Jose L. Medina/Sun-News reporter Article Launched: 06/19/2008 08:17:06 AM MDT LAS CRUCES — A hit list...
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There are many Cinco de Mayo festivities happening today. Parades, street fairs, live music, good food, and drinking are just a few of the ways people will be celebrating. Today is a day of...
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"El Paso, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working anti-terrorism operations at the Bridge of the Americas commercial cargo lot in El Paso discovered 3,343 pounds of marijuana in a sea container yesterday. The huge bales of pot were concealed in a false...
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Every day thousands of people, cars, trucks and trains pass through the Mexican town Ciudad Juarez's six border crossings to the United States, while 300 international companies have...
"Rosa Isela Contreras-Dominguez, a legal permanent resident facing deportation for a felony drug conviction, was seven weeks pregnant when she lost consciousness at a federal detention center in El Paso on Tuesday night and died at a local hospital.
The 35-year-old mother of...
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"Two words spoken by a man she has never seen in person are the reason college student Maxine Frank decided to march in the Downtown Eastside yesterday to remember women she never knew.
When Robert (Willy) Pickton...
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