Mexican drug cartels' annual take in the US estimated at $23 billion
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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A member of Mexico's Tijuana drugs cartel will be jailed for life by a US court for his role in narco-business.
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Over the last decade gangs have spread across Central America, Mexico and the U.S., setting off a catastrophic crime wave.
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CARACAS - Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, counternarcotics officials said. Up to 220 tons of cocaine, a third of what Colombia produces, now pass through Venezuela each year. Officials said the Bush administration's poor relations with Venezuela ...
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In stories Jan. 13, 14 and 18 about Mexican drug cases, The Associated Press erroneously reported the reward offered by U.S. authorities for alleged Mexican drug lord Ismael Zambada, alias "El Mayo." The amount is &#36;5 million, not &#36;2 million.
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos has chosen potential private partners for a US$2.7 billion (euro2.15 billion) project to boost its faltering petrochemicals business.
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Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash and tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, federal officials said.
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MEXICALI, Mexico  - Mexican drug gangs are  peppering the U.S. border with small shipments of illegal  narcotics in a tactic known as "shotgunning" to beat increased  security, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
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The slaying of a Mexican drug lord's brother was part of a wider battle between cartels for control of border drug trafficking routes, Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said Monday.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The United States has captured a suspected leader of Mexico's powerful Gulf drug cartel and one of the country's most wanted men, Carlos "El Puma" Landin, while he was shopping in Texas, the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Tuesday.
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$35.8bn pot bonanza A report into illicit marijuana cultivation in the US says it is now the country's biggest cash crop, having seen a tenfold increase in production over the last 25 years.â¦
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Powerful drug gangs still control parts of Mexico despite a wide-ranging crackdown involving thousands of federal troops, a top security official said Thursday.
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Twenty-seven Americans have been abducted in Mexico's northern border region over the past six months and two have been killed, the State Department said Thursday.
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CUERNAVACA, Mexico  - The United States will stand by Latin American governments in their battle against powerful drug cartels, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vowed on Friday.
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The United States, Colombia and Mexico are slowing the flow of cocaine and methamphetamine into the U.S., according to new figures from the Drug Enforcement Administration.