Americans Covering Mexico Drug Trade Face Assassination Threat
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MEXICO CITY, July 13 -- The San Antonio Express-News, a 230,000-circulation daily, this week withdrew its U.S.-Mexico border reporter after learning of what appears to be an unprecedented plan to assassinate American journalists who frequently write about drug cartels in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
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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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Brazen daylight killings by presumed drug smugglers just up the hill from Acapulco Bay are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody drug wars will cripple Mexico's critical tourism industry.
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Authorities are concerned al-Qaida or other terrorist groups could conspire with smuggling organizations to bring weapons of mass destruction into Arizona from Mexico, an immigration official said Thursday.
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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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When accused drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Felix began planning a deep-sea fishing trip more than a year ago, federal drug agents also got ready &#151; to catch their prey.
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Gunmen killed a newspaper photographer as he and his family ate in a restaurant in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the home turf of nearly all of Mexico's top drug bosses, authorities said Monday.
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Three U.S. residents and seven others linked to the powerful Gulf drug cartel were arrested following a deadly shootout just across the border from Texas, Mexican officials said Tuesday
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Hitmen from Mexico's drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honor by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.
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Violence between rival Mexican drug   cartels is "boiling over" as a wave of grisly murders shocks   even hardened law enforcement agents, a senior U.S.   anti-narcotics official said on Thursday.
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Mexico's incoming president, Felipe   Calderon, will use extradition to the United States as a major   weapon in the war on rampant drug smuggling gangs, a senior   aide said on Tuesday.
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Reporters there say they face a growing threat from feuding political factions.
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Mexico's government is probing a  report that drug cartels may have access to anti-aircraft  missiles, which could be used to assassinate President Vicente  Fox, officials said on Saturday.
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Authorities are targeting some employers the same way they go after drug dealers. But advocates say it does little to solve the problem of illegal workers in the U.S.
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.
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Mexico extradited one of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling brothers on Saturday to   the United States, where he has faced drug charges since the   1980s, a source in the attorney general's office said.
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Governments throughout Mexico and Central America are on alert as evidence grows that al-Qaida members are traveling in the region and looking for recruits to carry out attacks in Latin America - the potential last frontier for international terrorism.    The territory could be a perfect staging ground for Osama bin Laden's militants, with homegrown rebel groups, drug and people smugglers, and corrupt governments...