Mexican mob burns officers alive
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A mob in Mexico City beats and sets two police officers alight after mistaking them for kidnappers.
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Federal police arrested 33 people in raids on a town where a murderous mob beat and burned to death two police officers accused of child stealing.
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Four imprisoned Guatemalan policemen were killed Sunday during a riot by inmates, days after the officers were arrested in connection with the deaths of three Salvadoran politicians, police said. The warden and other prison officials were being held hostage.
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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.
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An angry mob destroyed police stations and a courthouse in two Amazon towns while trying to lynch murder suspects, officials said Monday. One man was killed during the rioting and 44 people were arrested.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police fought a fierce battle with suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a town near the U.S. border on Monday, and one police officer was killed, witnesses and Mexican media said.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Drug gang hit men killed three Mexican army informants on Tuesday and dumped them near a military training base close to the U.S. border, scrawling threats on the bodies in black ink, police said.
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Even if the bloody feud between cartels stops, the police force is badly compromised and must be rebuilt
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24 - This city seemed in a state of shock on Wednesday as people struggled to come to grips with the scenes of lawlessness captured on television as an angry mob lynched two police officers
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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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Authorities sent 1,200 police into a Mexican prison on Monday to contain violence after a fight left four inmates dead, officials said.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox fired the capital city&#39;s police chief on Monday after a mob beat and burned to death two police officers and severely injured a third last month.
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A police chief and a councilman were shot and killed Thursday in a Mexican border state where drug-fueled violence has increased and a string of law enforcement officers have been killed.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A bloody riot Wednesday in the La Esperanza Jail, in Mariona, in the outskirts of San Salvador, left a toll of at least 20 dead and another 30 injured.
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Mexico will bring genocide charges  in March against two dozen former officials for a 1968 student  massacre, the bloodiest moment in a brutal campaign against  leftist dissidents during decades of one-party rule.
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LIMA, Peru  - Indian peasants burned alive a man  accused of stealing a gas canister in the latest outbreak of  mob justice in Peru's remote southern Andes.
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Mexican police arrested dozens of people in a raid on a town where a frenzied mob beat and burned two federal police officers to death in an attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.