Mexico jails placed on high alert
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Mexico's top-security jails are on maximum alert after the killing of six prison staff blamed on drug gangs.
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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 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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Governors told to move as many inmates as possible to open jails in response to prison overcrowding
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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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The jails of this crowded, sweltering city are getting crowded, and not with your typical prisoners.
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Police in South America&#039;s largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
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Mexican police tightened security in the capital on Monday in the wake of a fatal bomb attack, but could still not say for sure whether drug gangs were behind the explosion.
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Mexico's Pacific coast is on alert as increasingly dangerous Hurricane John approaches with strong winds and rains.
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Authorities at the GuantÃ¡namo Bay detention facility have clamped down decisively in recent months.
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Ports and airports are put on alert as police search for a convicted child rapist who is on the run.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 22 -- Soldiers arrested 11 suspected hit men Tuesday at drug safe houses in the Mexican capital. Authorities said the safe houses were linked to the violent Sinaloa cartel, a group whose caches had not previously been discovered in the city.
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MEXICO CITY -- Look, up in the sky! It's the federales , rappelling down tall buildings to thwart the criminales .
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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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Federal authorities expect to identify and deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are convicted criminals serving time in prisons across the country.
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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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LOS ANGELES  Overcrowding and staff shortages at Los Angeles County jails is forcing some incoming inmates with medical problems to sleep on floors while waiting to be transferred to cellblocks.