Mexico sends military to strategic sites
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MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n of Mexico has dispatched a new, 5,000-strong, elite military unit to guard strategic sites, including oil refineries and hydroelectric dams, in the wake of guerrilla attacks on pipelines operated by the national oil and gas company, Pemex, according to news reports yesterday.
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Commanders are arming groups that have promised to fight militants who have been their allies in the past.
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President Bush signed off on a plan that will keep more troops than previously envisioned in Europe and add large numbers of soldiers to bases in Colorado, Georgia and Texas.
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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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Mexico tightened security at strategic oil installations on Tuesday after a shadowy leftist rebel group claimed responsibility for a rash of fuel pipeline explosions.
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TAMPICO, Mexico  - The Mexican army convoy rolled off a Hercules plane in the middle of the night, purred through this sweltering port city's dingy back streets and swooped on traffickers unloading cocaine in a warehouse.
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Venezuela plans to obtain air defense missiles to guard strategic sites such as oil refineries and major bridges against any air strike, a top military adviser to President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday.
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By Steve Ramirez, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M.  Feb. 2--OROGRANDE -- The war in Iraq was played out Thursday in the  southern New Mexico.
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After sending 7,000 members of the security forces to Michoacan state this week to battle suspected drug traffickers, Mexico announced plans on Thursday to send soldiers to other states to fight drug gangs.
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Its burgeoning military-industrial complex is increasingly capable of turning out cutting-edge weaponry - and selling it.
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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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Officials are mulling a new, long-term strategy that shifts military focus from large-scale warfare to fighting terrorism, low-tech guerrilla wars and less conventional threats.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The US promises Mexico access to a database to trace arms smuggled from the US to Mexican drug gangs.
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More than 6,000 National Guard troops have been assigned to southwestern border states by the government's Aug. 1 deadline &#151; though only about half of them are on duty along the border, the Guard said Monday.
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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 -- Deadly assaults on two police stations by criminals wearing soldiers' uniforms have raised the pressure on Mexico's new president, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, to demonstrate that his much flaunted military-led crackdown on organized crime can stand up to the nation's powerful drug cartels.