Spring-breakers party on amid Acapulco drug war
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - U.S. spring-breakers are guzzling beers and slamming back tequilas in the Mexican Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, unfazed by a violent drug war that has killed police and left body parts strewn about town.
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Mexico's new government, struggling with rampant drug trafficking and crime, ordered thousands of troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartels locked in a vicious turf war.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11 -- More than 5,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police officers swept into the troubled state of Michoacan on Monday hoping to quell a long, barbaric war between rival 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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Over the last decade gangs have spread across Central America, Mexico and the U.S., setting off a catastrophic crime wave.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Federal law enforcement officials  have arrested an assistant state prosecutor suspected of involvement in the murder of a state political party leader, a federal drug investigator and two pilots in the violence-torn border state of Durango.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.
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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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Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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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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Powerful drug gangs still control parts of Mexico despite a wide-ranging crackdown involving thousands of federal troops, a top security official said Thursday.
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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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OAXACA CITY, Mexico  - Riot police firing tear gas clashed with protesters launching fireworks and throwing Molotov cocktails on Saturday in the strife-torn city of Oaxaca.
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A motel in northern Mexico is putting steel doors on its rooms to protect guests from kidnappings and shootings in an escalating war between rival drug cartels.
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PGA golfers are about to discover what colleague Esteban Toledo and thousands of tourists have known for years: Playing 18 holes in Mexico can be as enjoyable as a cold margarita on a hot afternoon.
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AK-47 rifles, flashy cars and cowboy hats show the violent life of Mexican drug smugglers in the region bordering the United States, which "guerrilla artist" Watchavato has turned into a chic form of street art.