Posts Tagged ‘drug violence’
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November 19, 2009
Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism
November 10, 2009
Traveling in Mexico despite drug violence, H1N1 flu
September 10, 2009
Rehab Clinics Targeted In Mexico’s Drug War
September 4, 2009
Gunmen Kill 17 At A Drug Rehab In Mexico – Cuidad Juarez
September 1, 2009
Is Decriminalization Enough to Stop the “War on Drugs” Violence in Latin America?
July 14, 2009
More than 1,000 people have been killed in Cuidad Juárez since the beginning of 2009 due to drug violence, Chihuahua state police reported Saturday.
July 13, 2009
The Juárez drug cartel has denied involvement in the killing of an anti-crime activist even as drug-related murders in Mexico are on pace to surpass last year.
June 25, 2009
Mexico President Felipe Calderon says drug war threatens democracy
June 23, 2009
Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers
June 17, 2009
The Drug Lord Who Got Away – Mexican Capo Unleashes Mayhem on U.S. Border; The Making of a Legend – El Chapo
March 23, 2009
President Barack Obama said last week that he wants to follow through on his promise to fix the immigration system. But that goal, always politically difficult, faces major hurdles: the crumbling economy, drug violence in Mexico, and a jam-packed agenda already facing Congress.
Mexican Drug Cartel Violence Spills Over, Alarming U.S.
March 16, 2009
Mexicans weary of drug war and Calderón’s party is in danger of losing control of the lower house of Congress to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI
March 14, 2009
Hillary Clinton and the Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico
U.S. shares in blame for Mexico drug violence
March 13, 2009
Narco War Next Door – (great video about the drug war in Mexico) -In this one-hour Vanguard report, Laura Ling travels to the border towns of Juarez and Tijuana, Mexico where drugs gangs are fighting for control of the drug routes into the United States.
March 11, 2009
Progress in Mexico drug war is drenched in blood
March 10, 2009
House subcommittees are considering spending requests for security along the U.S.-Mexico border and ways to help curb Mexican drug violence.
The rich flee Mexico drug violence – Fearing for their lives, affluent seek asylum in Houston, other Texas cities
March 6, 2009
Tourists weigh Mexico safety risk – Drug violence gives vacationers pause, concerns travel industry
Mexican Drug Cartels Load Up On US Bullets
The Mexican president has blamed US “corruption” for hampering his nation’s efforts to combat violent drug cartels. Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of Mexico’s drug gang problems was “having the world’s biggest consumer [of drugs] next to us”.
March 5, 2009
Armor-plated vehicles rise as U.S.-Mexico border violence escalates
March 3, 2009
With Force, Mexican Drug Cartels Get Their Way
February 16, 2009
As drug violence spirals out of control in Mexico, a commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U.S.-led drug war as a failure that is pushing Latin American societies to the breaking point.
February 11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. – spurred by Mexico’s drug cartels
February 4, 2009
Mexico drug fighter killed after less than a day on job – Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured before being killed near Cancun
February 1, 2009
Juárez violence: U.S. assistance is considered, warring cartels may try for truce – The deadly street shootings, decapitations and other killings in Juárez are taking place at a higher pace than at the same time last year
December 21, 2008
A yearlong epidemic of violence, the bulk blamed on drug-related viciousness, also killed the laughter and the music, decapitated a way of life, and shoved families and individuals on both sides of the Rio Grande into a perpetual state of sadness. The once-vibrant downtown nightclub and tourist district — the cultural corazón of Juárez — usually jammed with people this time of year, is now hauntingly silent.
December 19, 2008
Mexico’s Drug Wars Have Killed 7,000 In 2 Years
December 17, 2008
Informe: Narcotráfico mexicano amenaza a EEUU
December 10, 2008
Mexico’s bloody drug war – The drug violence in Mexico rivals death tolls in Iraq.
December 6, 2008
Journalists become targets in Mexico’s drug war
23 seconds of the Mexican drug war – When four people in a jewelry store were killed by gunmen who took nothing, few doubted it was a message sent in the drug war. – Video
November 17, 2008
Mexico drug wars spill across the border U.S. – Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes.
October 23, 2008
Rice visits a Mexico fatigued by drug violence
Mexico’s spreading drug violence – The U.S. must help Mexico deal with rising drug violence before security problems spread.
September 9, 2008
Behind Mexico’s Wave of Beheadings
September 8, 2008
Juan Jose Soriano, deputy commander of the Tecate Police Department, helped U.S. authorities find a drug-smuggling tunnel. The next morning, gunmen shot him 45 times in his bedroom.
August 26, 2008
Mexico moves to curb drug crime wave – President Calderon proposes new anti-kidnapping squads, special prisons, cellphone tracking and aid for local forces.
August 18, 2008
Mexican authorities say gunmen killed 13 people at a family party in Creel, Chihuahua.
August 11, 2008
Officials say U.S. automatic weapons, ammunition and other arms are pouring across the Mexican border to drug traffickers engaged in an internal war.
July 29, 2008
U.S. Recession, Drug War Violence Cause Crisis in Mexico Tourism – Mexican tourism is worth $83 billion annually and helps support 2.4 million jobs
July 21, 2008
‘Flood’ of drugs from Mexico linked to area abductions – Georgia
July 17, 2008
Mexican drug traffickers built car bombs, police say
July 16, 2008
Drug war mayhem instills a new fear – Drug-related killings have taken thousands of lives, but now those uninvolved in the cartel battles are falling victim, even children.
July 14, 2008
Mexico’s drug war shows a virulent feminine side
July 10, 2008
More kids caught in Mexico drug-war crossfire
June 19, 2008
Gunmen kill official in Ciudad Juarez
June 18, 2008
Ex-rivals’ merge to ‘megacartel’ intensifies brutality in Mexico
June 12, 2008
El Paso County Judge Anthony Cobos, refuses to treat Mexican cartel victims
ICE doubles security efforts to ensure violence doesn’t spill over – El Paso / Juárez
June 11, 2008
El Paso to ask feds for help treating wounded Mexican cops
Did You Know? Tuesday, the U.S. House authorized spending $1.6 billion over the next three years to help Mexico and other countries counter growing drug violence, including $74 million for the Justice Department to stem the flow of guns south. Funding, however, will have to come separately.
June 10, 2008
U.S., Mexico fighting flow of firearms to drug cartels
Note, head found near Mexican newspaper office
Texans head across the border to save on gasoline
June 9, 2008
Mexico’s War on Drugs is a Sham – Mexico’s strategy against organized crime is failing because it has not attacked the larger financial or political structure behind drug trafficking, writes La Opinión’s Mexico City correspondent.
June 4, 2008
Did You Know? More than 4,000 people, including about 450 members of the police department, have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderón took office a year and a half ago.
Mexico: the danger of ‘drug ballads’ – In the past two years, 15 mexican musicians have been murdered. Their crime: to fall foul of the country’s drug barons.
Armed men gun down Mexican mayor in violent Michoacan state
June 3, 2008
Mexico army marches into drug war — again – Troops have been deployed to a greater extent than ever to fight narcotics traffickers. But critics fear the corruption that afflicts the police will envelop the military.
May 15, 2008
As drug violence intensifies, some Mexican police chiefs seek asylum in U.S.
May 13, 2008
Mexican Citizens Alarmed as Drug Violence Escalates
May 12, 2008
Tough talk and fear as Mexican drug violence soars
January 21, 2008
Mexico gunmen target children in drug war
January 10, 2008
Calderon: ‘Close ranks’ on Mexico’s drug gangs
October 10, 2007
Rice Economist Predicts US Won’t Resolve Immigration Dilemma Without Mexico (Latina Lista)
March 26, 2007
Mexican drug violence claims nearly 500 lives this year
February 8, 2007
Acapulcos rising drug violence imperils Mexican tourist industry
December 12, 2006
Mexican government sends 6,500 troops to state scarred by drug violence, beheadings
September 27, 2006
Did You Know? Authorities say more than 1,500 people have died in Mexican drug violence so far this year
July 2, 2006
Mexico holding presidential vote
April 24, 2006
U.S. ambassador has watched the U.S.-Mexico border change
February 23, 2006
Gov Perry, Mexican governor talk border violence. Texas
