Mexico president gives soldiers pay hike
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Soldiers waging a nationwide offensive against drug traffickers will get a pay hike of nearly 50 percent this year in a bid to insulate them from corruption, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced Monday.
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Mexico's new government, struggling with rampant drug trafficking and crime, ordered thousands of troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartels locked in a vicious turf war.
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APATZINGAN, Mexico -- Thousands of troops rolled into a key Mexican drug stronghold yesterday to set fire to marijuana and opium fields and round up traffickers -- an initiative ordered by President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n to restore order in a region where smugglers have defied authorities with beheadings and large-scale drug production.
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Mexico announced plans on Thursday to broaden its fight against feuding drug gangs, saying it would dispatch soldiers to other areas after sending 7,000 troops and police to one violence-plagued state this week.
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Text of report by Mexican news agency Notimex  Mazatlan, Sinaloa, 21 Feb (Notimex) - President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa reiterated his commitment to the environment and declared that it is time to restore order to Mexico's seas and coasts.
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The U.S. Army had granted Halliburton a third extension to substantiate its costs in Iraq and Kuwait.
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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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The President-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, announces his first cabinet appointments.
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President Bush spelled out in greater detail Thursday the pay raise that takes effect Jan. 1 for federal workers, members of Congress, judges &#151; even Vice President Dick Cheney.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1 -- Felipe CalderÃÂ³n, a free-trade booster and career politician, was sworn in as president of Mexico on Friday in a ceremony undercut by lawmakers' jeers and fisticuffs, a chaotic scene that reflected the country's deep political and economic divisions.
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About 1.8 million federal employees would receive a 1.7 percent increase in their basic pay and a 0.5 percent average increase in their locality pay next year under a plan that President Bush sent to Congress yesterday, administration officials said.
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Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon defied leftist protesters on Thursday by vowing to hold his inauguration in Congress, risking clashes with opposition lawmakers who say he stole the July election.
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Mexico gave the military salary increases of almost 50 percent on Monday to reward it for leading the fight against violent drug gangs.
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Mexico is sending thousands of police and military personnel to two states bordering Texas in its fight against drug gangs, Interior Minister Francisco Ramirez Acuna said on Sunday.
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The leftist opposition leader who had himself declared Mexico's "legitimate president" this week to back up claims of fraud in a July 2 presidential election asked for donations on Wednesday to pay his salary.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday named a single commander for two federal police agencies and appointed a former peace negotiator with the Zapatista rebels as head of Indian affairs.
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The Mexican president steps up personal security after reports his travel plans were leaked to a drug cartel.