Two Mexican generals detained for alleged drug gang ties
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Investigators are questioning Mexico’s former deputy defense minister and a top army general for suspected links to organized crime, in the highest level scandal to hit the military in the five-year-old drug war.
Mexico’s Six-Year Drug War Behind the Mother’s Day Massacre
By Vera H-C ChanTrending NowMexico bodiesThe mass dumping of headless bodies administers a shock to Mexico, long numbed by a death count of nearly 50,000 brought on by president Felipe Calderon’s war against the crime cartels. By the time his tenure en…
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Since 2006, an estimated 50,000 people have died in drug- and gang-related violence in Mexico -- 49 of whom were found this weekend without heads, hands or feet outside Monterrey. ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former Mexican law enforcement official who worked closely with U.S. authorities in the drug war pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Diego to ...
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Some notable incidents of mass violence Mexico’s drug war over past year: May 13: Mutilated bodies of 49 people dumped on highway in northern Mexico. May 9: Dismembered bodies of 18 victims ...
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DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - Nearly two dozen members of a Hispanic gang were arrested in Kansas this week under a federal grand jury indictment accusing them of victimizing illegal ...
The bodies stuffed into two vehicles abandoned on the side of a highway had been so badly mutilated officers could not tell if they were male or female, said a ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Four of the last reporters and photographers willing to cover crime stories have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state, where two ...
Two newly retired experts on the border speak freely about the status of the Arizona/Mexico dividing line Dan Wirth and Keith Graves spent significant portions of their careers working on the ...
The federal Attorney General’s Office has been asked by the government of Veracruz state to help solve the killing of a reporter who covered Mexico’s drug war, state officials said. Federal ...
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