Central American Street Gangs Spread Across Mexico
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Violent gangs with roots in U.S.  crime culture are spreading through Mexico, with some setting  up shop in the capital, the government said on Thursday.
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MEXICO CITY - 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.
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In the past decade, a youth gang  with its origins in El Salvador has established a major  criminal presence in the United States, bringing a new level of  violence and brutality to towns and cities across the nation.
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Gangs torched buses and attacked banks and police stations across South America&#039;s biggest city Thursday, deepening crime fears as a wave of rampant violence entered its third day.
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While jailed in their home country, Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 street gang directed fellow members in suburban Maryland to commit violent crimes, including murders, federal officials said yesterday.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Hit men 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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Thousands of Mexican soldiers arrive in the western state of Michoacan to deal with drug-related violence.
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The bodies of 12 men killed by hitmen believed linked to drug gangs were found Tuesday in the northern state of Sinaloa, in what appears to be one of the deadliest one-day tolls in violent drug battles in recent years.
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MEXICO CITY - The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore yesterday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific. Officials were searching for more victims off San Francisco del Mar, west of Mexico's border with Guatemala. Officials said they believed 26 people were aboard the small boat, which ...
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A bus loaded with riders was spewed with bullets from automatic weapons by gangsters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.23 passengers lost their live while 16 others were wounded in the massacre.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Authorities blamed youth gangs yesterday for an attack on a public bus that killed 28 people returning from work or Christmas shopping in the latest violent outrage to hit the poor Central American nation.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland-style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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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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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Mexican federal police will patrol the hotel zone of Acapulco day and night to prevent an outbreak of drug gang violence from affecting tourism, a senior police official said on Friday.
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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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A rash of thefts has Mexican priests and community leaders gathering donations to install security systems.