Mexico: Threats won't end drug crackdown
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday that drug traffickers' threats against his government would not stop a military crackdown against them, and he demanded that the United States do more to fight the sale and consumption of drugs domestically.
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Inmates are carrying out vendettas inside prison walls, planning escapes and running their outside-world drug empires &#151; even at Mexico's highest-security penitentiaries, prompting Mexico City's mayor to call for the army to intervene.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday after criticism by  Washington over lawlessness along the border.
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Amnesty International raised  concerns on Wednesday over President Felipe Calderon's use of  troops to control Mexico's spiraling drug violence, fearing  rights abuses and echoing worries of the United Nations.
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Mexico and four Central American nations condemned the U.S plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration.
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Even if the bloody feud between cartels stops, the police force is badly compromised and must be rebuilt
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A flap with the United States over violence on Mexico's northern border does not threaten the two nations' strong relationship, though Mexican officials maintain Washington went too far with a travel alert, President Vicente Fox said Friday.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Wednesday promised tougher controls on guns flowing illegally over the U.S. border to Mexico, where drug cartels have murdered 115 people already this month.
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Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a new fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border more dangerous.
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A drug gang has threatened to kill foreign journalists who report on the violence between rival cartels and security forces along the U.S.-Mexico border, media and U.S. officials said on Friday.
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A powerful paramilitary boss faces a long prison sentence &#151; and possible extradition to the United States &#151; because he broke a partial amnesty deal by continuing to run a drug smuggling ring from jail, authorities said Friday.
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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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APATZINGAN, Mexico  - Mexican soldiers searched cars at checkpoints and the navy patrolled coastal areas on Tuesday in a crackdown on feuding drug gangs that have terrorized a western state.
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Marauding drug gangs in a violent  Mexican border city have turned to kidnapping U.S. citizens for  ransom as they seek to diversify their criminal activities, the  U.S. government warned on Friday.
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Mexico has extradited a record 64 drug kingpins and people smugglers to the United States so far this year, a U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, part of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels.
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Mexico City's mayor said Tuesday his government was not intimidated by a bomb apparently intended for a police director, and pledged to forge ahead with the capital's battle against organized crime.
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The United States asked Mexico on   Thursday to send federal security forces back to the border   city of Nuevo Laredo, which is still struggling with drug   violence despite a security crackdown last year.