Mexico raises troop salaries in drug crackdown
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Mexico gave the military salary increases of almost 50 percent on Monday to reward them for leading the fight against violent drug gangs.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Hundreds of heavily armed  federal police patrolled cities near Mexico's border with Texas  on Monday in an assault on drug cartels that have defied  President Vicente Fox's government with a spate of killings.
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Drug traffickers have threatened the government but that will not stop a nationwide crackdown, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday.
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Mexico's increasingly brazen drug cartels may have been behind a bomb blast in the center of the capital in what would be a major escalation of a war with President Felipe Calderon's government.
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Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, said on Saturday his first budget bill next week would seek pay hikes for the military despite his planned austerity drive.
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Mexico's new president announces a pay cut for himself and high-ranking government officials as part of an austerity drive.
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In the latest twist in Mexico's war  on drug trafficking, a senior member of President Vicente Fox's  staff has been arrested over possible links with a drugs gang,  Mexico's attorney general said on Saturday.
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After sending 7,000 members of the security forces to Michoacan state this week to battle suspected drug traffickers, Mexico announced plans on Thursday to send soldiers to other states to fight drug gangs.
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Seeking to crack down on widespread chaos and corruption on the streets, Mexico City on Friday introduced tougher traffic laws and incentives for police to stop accepting bribes.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across  the border into the United States and who had a $2 million  price tag on his head, the government said on Monday.
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Seventeen Mexican drug agents were picked up last week for alleged involvement in trafficking in Canc&#250;n.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 -- 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 that will be released Thursday.
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The homeland security secretary said the increase were tied to efforts to stop smuggling and illegal immigration.
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MEXICO CITY, June 25 -- The heads of federal police agencies in all 32 Mexican states and 250 other high-ranking officers were demoted Monday in one of the broadest corruption crackdowns in this country's recent history.
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The Mexican president steps up personal security after reports his travel plans were leaked to a drug cartel.
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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Mexico's new government announced Monday that it was sending more than 6,500 soldiers, marines and federal police to the western state of Michoacan to crack down on a wave of execution-style killings and beheadings that have left hundreds dead.