Drug 'cartelitos' hit Mexico resorts
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Seventeen Mexican drug agents were picked up last week for alleged involvement in trafficking in Canc&#250;n.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police shot dead three suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a fierce gun battle in a town near the U.S. border on Monday.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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An alleged leader of a powerful drug gang was caught near the border with California, Mexican officials announced Monday, calling it a blow to a syndicate they say is smuggling nearly half the illegal drugs crossing the U.S.-Mexico frontier.
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Increased security on the U.S.-Mexican   border is turning human smuggling into a multi-billion dollar   criminal industry and attracting violent gangs with ties to   Mexican drug cartels, authorities say.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug cartels are killing record numbers of people with unprecedented brutality. Federal security forces are bogged down in a violent political conflict in the southern city of Oaxaca. Years of sluggish economic growth cannot meet the needs of a country where over half the population lives in poverty.
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Gun battles between federal forces and drug-cartel members carrying rocket-propelled-grenade launchers may give the impression that a war is going on in Mexico.
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There are concerns at the country's top maximum-security prison about a possible war between drug cartels and reports surfaced that some high-profile inmates might have been planning an escape.
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Gun battles between federal forces and drug-cartel members equipped with rocket-propelled-grenade launchers may give the impression that there is a war in Mexico.
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Mexico said on Wednesday it will investigate whether its federal agents protected a Chinese-Mexican businessman tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, while the businessman's lawyers told a Washington news conference they fear for their client's life if he is returned to Mexico.
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Nine people, including three federal agents, were found dead at two locations near Mexico&#39;s resort town of Cancun, all believed slain by drug traffickers.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - A key hitman for Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel was arrested on Saturday in this crime-ridden border city, in another coup for President Felipe Calderon's clampdown on traffickers.
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Mexico has extradited a record 64 drug kingpins and people smugglers to the United States so far this year, a U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, part of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels.
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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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Two jailed drug bosses have joined forces to beat back a massive offensive by the Juarez cartel, sparking a bloody turf war that has rocked the U.S.-Mexico border, the resort city of Cancun and other key smuggling corridors across the country, Mexico's top anti-narcotics prosecutor said Thursday.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - An armed gang of suspected drug   traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the   dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an   apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.