Mexican marines arrest presumed drug kingpin

Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel and one of the country's most-wanted fugitives...

Mexican massacre investigator found dead

Body of official dumped beside road near scene of killing of 72 Central and South American migrants in Tamaulipas...

Teen shot by Border Patrol had smuggling arrests

A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent..

The coffins of two brothers who were slain in drug-related violence are lowered into the ground. The conflict has claimed more than 10,000 lives.....

The number of kidnappings in the Phoenix area soared to 366 last year, an increase blamed almost entirely on Mexican drug cartels.

The Homeland Security chief announced a doubling in the size of both of its border enforcement task forces and a trebling...
US orders Mexico border clampdown to stop tide of drugs deaths


Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Wearing body armor and tactical gear identical to American SWAT teams, kick in doors, zip-cuff the inhabitants, then kill them...

Illegal immigrants are taken to so-called drop houses, stripped naked, blindfolded, and held for ransom. If they're naked, there is less chance of them fleeing. A bucket in the room serves as a toilet…

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Source: www.ph.news.yahoo.com

Slideshow: Death and destruction on the cocaine trail...

The bloody route of Latin America's most profitable drug, from being produced in the Andes to being fished out of the sea as 'white lobster' by smugglers across the globe..

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Source: www.guardian.co.uk

'We let drug trafficking into our businesses, our houses, our bedrooms.

A turf war between drug cartels, fuelled by a government crackdown launched in 2006, has set in train an epidemic of violence that is killing 20 people a day on average…

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Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Mexico Drug Suspect Dissolved 300 Bodies

For the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of families of people who have vanished amid Baja California's drug wars, the search for justice has been lonely and fruitless.

But their hopes have been buoyed recently by the Jan. 22 arrest of a man Mexican authorities believe is behind the gruesome disposal of bodies in vats of industrial chemicals...

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Source: la times