Slayings in Mexico put focus on vigilantism
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MEXICO CITY -- The images are chilling: A young man, his face bloody and swollen, struggles to tell a television reporter that he is an undercover federal agent, then a mob burns him and another officer alive on camera.
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CANCUN, Mexico Police in Mexico are blaming nine murders in the Cancun (kan-KOON&#39;) area on a drug turf war. Five bodies have been found just off the highway leading to the airport.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Mexican journalist Francisco  Arratia used to tap out daily columns sounding off against the  drug traffickers and corrupt cops that blighted his home city  on the U.S. border.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug cartels are killing record numbers of people with unprecedented brutality. Federal security forces are bogged down in a violent political conflict in the southern city of Oaxaca. Years of sluggish economic growth cannot meet the needs of a country where over half the population lives in poverty.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Suspected drug gunmen killed three senior policemen and some of their relatives in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a week after the government beefed up security against drug gangs, police said on Tuesday.
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Mexico sought a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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TIJUANA/NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - Cristina Palacios  was sitting with her son Alejandro in a car in the crime-ridden  Mexican city of Tijuana on the U.S. border when three men armed  with assault rifles came for him.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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They prefer the darkness and calm of early morning when their targets are most vulnerable, still sleeping or under the influence. They make sure their prey -- suspected killers and other violent fugitives -- know what they're up against.
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Human Rights Watch urged Mexican  lawmakers on Wednesday to overhaul a justice system that breeds  torture and feeds notorious rights scandals like the murders of  hundreds of women near the U.S. border.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that violence was a problem on both sides of the border and that U.S. officials need to work on their own rising crime rates.
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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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It's been nearly a decade since pro-government villagers armed with guns and machetes slaughtered 45 men, women and children in the neighboring hamlet of Acteal Â a massacre that remains emblematic of Mexico's human rights failures.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Mexican federal police will patrol the hotel zone of Acapulco day and night to prevent an outbreak of drug gang violence from affecting tourism, a senior police official said on Friday.
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Mexico's gruesome drug war and its hundreds of executions a year are the inspiration for an art exhibit of red-splattered blankets meant to represent shrouds used by hitmen to dispose of their victims.