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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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Mexican troops replace police in half a state that borders Texas

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mariano Castillo - Jun. 25 (News) - Mexican troops fanned out across the border state of Tamaulipas this weekend, taking over security operations in half the state's cities and towns.

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Critic of ATF gun-trafficking program raised no objection when briefed last year

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jerry Markon, Sari Horwitz - Jun. 22 (News Report) - A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

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La Familia drug cartel defeated, says Mexico

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:27:54 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Sara Miller Llana - Jun. 22 (News) - La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, has been arrested and Mexican authorities contend that the group's reign in the state of Michoacán has come to an end.

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Global war on drugs has 'failed'

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 02 (News) - The global war on drugs has "failed" and legalisation would be a better option, according to a new report by group of politicians and former world leaders.

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28 dead, 700 flee as gang battles hit west Mexico

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Gustavo Ruiz - May. 26 (News) - the Norway-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre... estimates about 230,000 people in Mexico have been driven from their homes, often to stay with relatives or in the United States

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UC honor student faces deportation

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Cincinnati Enquirer - By Mark Curnutte - May. 01 (News Report) - A University of Cincinnati student, described by an administrator as having once-in-a-decade talent in information technology, faces a May 20 hearing in immigration court in Buffalo, N.Y., that could lead to his deportation.

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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs - The Guardian

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ed Vulliamy - Apr. 03 (Investigative Report) - How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs The Guardian His speciality, he explains, was his application of a " know your client", or KYC, policing strategy to identifying dirty money. "KYC is a fundamental approach to anti-money laundering, going after tax evasion or counter-terrorist financing. ... ...

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Mass 'scareware' attack hits 1.5M websites, still spreading -

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Michael Winter - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - A massive attack that's trying to scare computer users into visiting a bogus antivirus site has infected more than 1.5 million websites and continues to spread, according to an Internet security firm. Several pages on Apple's iTunes store have been infected. The so-called LizaMoon "SQL injection attack" began Tuesday and is being tracked by Websense. Such attacks redirect users by exploiting programming errors and poorly written code and scripts. eWeek says the attack is "out of control ... with no end in sight." Nearly half the compromised sites are in the United States. Other affected countries include United Kingdom, Kuwait, India, Australia, Turkey, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Taiwan and Chile.

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U.S. Drones Fight Mexican Drug Trade

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ginger Thompson, Mark Mazzetti - Mar. 16 (News Report) - Stepping up its involvement in Mexico’s drug war, the Obama administration has begun sending drones deep into Mexican territory to gather intelligence that helps locate major traffickers and follow their networks, according to American and Mexican officials.

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In Juarez, women just disappear

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Chris Arsenault - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - The story of young women who simply disappear is all too common in this border city, but in the last two years, gendered violence has been drawn into the broader blood pool in Mexico’s murder capital. A grisly drug war has claimed at least 7,800 lives in the city since 2008. But femicides, or targeted attacks on women represent something different from the killings affecting all residents, activists say.

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Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, Defender of Mexico’s Mayans, Dies at 86

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Julia Preston - Jan. 27 (News) - During his 40 years presiding over a Roman Catholic diocese in Chiapas, Bishop Ruiz cast light on abuses suffered by the Indians and sought to bring them into the church as equals with other Mexicans.

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Mexico police: 7 slain at soccer game

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Jan. 25 (Breaking News) - (CNN) -- A group of heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal

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Videotaped killing of grieving Mexican mother stirs a nation

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Tim Johnson - Dec. 18 (News Report) - A mother campaigning to bring the confessed killer of her 16-year-old daughter to justice was herself gunned down Thursday night in view of a closed circuit television camera, leaving images that shocked Mexicans over the impunity of the killers.

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Gang leader blamed in Ciudad Juarez violence arrested

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ken Ellingwood - Nov. 29 (News Report) - Arturo Gallegos Castrellon is described as the main leader of the Aztecas street gang. Mexican authorities say he confessed to numerous killings, including that of a U.S. consular employee that was previously blamed on a different Aztecas leader.Mexican authorities said Sunday that they had arrested the main leader of the Aztecas, a Ciudad Juarez street gang blamed for much of the violence in the troubled border city.

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Mexican ex-pats warned about holiday travel home

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Daniel Hernandez - Nov. 24 (News Report) - The Mexican government advises them to travel in convoys and only in daylight because of the drug war. IIt is an annual ritual, a pilgrimage that Mexicans living in the United States make to visit hometowns and families for the holidays.

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Mexican cartels amass better arsenals, mostly bought in U.S.

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Tim Johnson - Nov. 18 (News Report) - As cartels build up their weapons stocks, a bloody new phase unfolds in a drug war that's already left nearly 30,000 victims since late 2006. "They are looking for the highest caliber, highest capacity weapon they can, because they are at war with the military" ....

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US-Trained Cartel Terrorises Mexico

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Chris Arsenault - Oct. 20 (News) - Some of the cartel's initial members were elite Mexican troops, trained in the early 1990s by America’s 7th Special Forces Group or "snake eaters" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a former US special operations commander has told Al Jazeera. “They were given map reading courses, communications, standard special forces training, light to heavy weapons, machine guns and automatic weapons,” says Craig Deare, the former special forces commander who is now a professor at the US National Defence University.

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Lawsuit: Mentally ill US citizen wrongly deported

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Kate Brumback - Oct. 13 (News) - A mentally disabled U.S. citizen who spoke no Spanish was deported to Mexico with little but a prison jumpsuit after immigration agents manipulated him into signing documents allowing his removal, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. His lawyers say the agents ignored records showing his Social Security number, while prison officials wouldn't tell concerned relatives what happened.

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Policeman possibly linked to Falcon Lake case beheaded

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Antonio Express-News - By Lynn Brezosky - Oct. 12 (News) - The severed head of a Mexican police commander investigating the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen David Michael Hartley on Falcon Lake was delivered Tuesday to Mexican military in a suitcase, authorities said.

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Falcon Lake 'pirate' attack: Sign of spillover from Mexico drug war?

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Oct. 05 (News) - As the survivor of what's being called a pirate assault on Falcon Lake, Texas, recounts the harrowing ordeal that likely took her husband's life, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is leading calls for a tough US response to spillover violence from Mexico's bloody drug wars onto American soil.

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Small-town mayor stoned to death in western Mexico

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Gustavo Ruiz - Sep. 27 (News) - A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August. ... Last year the city council chief, Gonzalo Paz, was kidnapped, tortured and killed. Then in December, the mayor and seven other town officials resigned saying they had been threatened by drug traffickers and local police were not showing up to work. Soon after, the department's entire 60-officer force was fired for failing to stop a series of killings and other crimes, and Michoacan state police and soldiers took over security in the town. Sanchez was named mayor in January.

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Threatened Mexican journalist granted U.S. asylum

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Julian Cardona - Sep. 22 (News) - A Mexican journalist threatened by drug gangs said on Tuesday he had been granted political asylum in the United States to escape the cartels' increasingly violent campaign to silence the media.

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Mexico paper seeks Ciudad Juarez drug gang guidance

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Sep. 20 (News) - A Mexican newspaper in the heartland of the country's drug war has asked cartels for guidance on whether it should publish stories on the conflict.

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Luis Carlos Santiago, Mexican Photojournalist, Killed In Ciudad Juarez

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Curtis M. Wong - Sep. 17 (News) - Gunmen attacked two newspaper photographers Thursday in the drug war-torn border city of Ciudad Juarez, killing one and seriously wounding the other.

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