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Mexico nabs man called drug cartel's state leader

AP News 105 days ago

Mexican authorities detain man described as state leader for La Familia drug cartel Police arrested a man Tuesday who they say headed the operations of the "La Familia" drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan. Abel Valadez Oribe, 32, was reportedly ...

Nine chopped up bodies found in Mexico van

AFP Global Edition 116 days ago

Mexican police have found the chopped up bodies of nine men in 18 plastic bags inside a van in the south of the country, a statement said Friday. The grisly discovery came amid a wave of suspected drug-related murders, which has killed ...

Tragedy overshadows Mexico's independence holiday

AP News 147 days ago

Mexico celebrates Independence Day under heavy guard a year after grenade attacks on revelers Mexicans celebrated their Independence Day under heavy police surveillance Tuesday and with a somber memorial for eight revelers killed last year in a shocking grenade attack on the ...

At least 40 people killed in drug-related Mexico violence

AFP Global Edition 159 days ago

Gunmen killed 18 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in northern Mexico, lining them up and executing them one-by-one, as a day-long surge in violence claimed at least 40 lives across the country. Witnesses told police that the assault in the state ...

Forty people killed in drug-related Mexico violence

AFP Global Edition 159 days ago

Gunmen killed 18 people at a clinic for drug addicts -- lining them up and shooting them one by one -- as a 24 hour surge in narcotics-related violence in Mexico claimed at least 40 lives. The bodies from the massacre were ...

Forty people die in drug-related Mexico violence

AFP Global Edition 160 days ago

A surge in drug-related violence the last 24 hours has seen at least 40 people killed in the troubled northern border region and President Felipe Calderon's home state. At least 18 people were killed and five wounded late Wednesday when gunmen stormed ...

Defense lawyer for Mexican underworld killed

AP News 184 days ago

Shooting kills well-known Mexican lawyer for suspected drug traffickers A Mexican lawyer known for defending high-profile drug trafficking suspects was shot to death Sunday at a street market in the northern city of Monterrey. A Monterrey police official who was not authorized ...

APTOPIX Mexico Drug War

AP News 195 days ago

An army soldier watches the burning of a clandestine methamphetamine, or crystal meth drug laboratory, allegedly run by Mexico's "La Familia" drug cartel, near the town of Uruapan in Michoacan state, Mexico, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Federal law enforcement officials say they ...

Mexico Drug War

AP News 195 days ago

Bags filled with crystal meth that were seized at a clandestine methamphetamine, or crystal meth drug laboratory, allegedly run by Mexico's "La Familia" drug cartel, sit before being destroyed near the town of Uruapan in Michoacan state, Mexico, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. ...

No end to violence in blood-soaked Mexican state

AFP Global Edition 198 days ago

Close to a black cross where Mexican drug cartels used to place the severed heads of their rivals, and near the site where the mutilated bodies of 12 police officers were found, a vendor has little success at his roadside stall selling ...

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