Mexico steps up anti-drugs fight
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Mexico sends more troops and police to states bordering Texas, in a further attempt to crack down on drug gangs.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Sunday said the United States should step up it's war on drugs as part of efforts to secure the country's borders.
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The government teamed up with doctors, academics and a U.S.-based drug company Wednesday to announce a campaign to reduce the number of smokers in Mexico by more than 10 percent in three years.
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Mexico gave the military salary increases of almost 50 percent on Monday to reward them for leading the fight against violent drug gangs.
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CANCUN, Mexico -- Moving to halt a bloody drug war that has moved south, Mexico was investigating the federal prosecutor's office in this beach resort town for possible involvement in the killings of nine people, including three federal agents.
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Behind the glitzy playgrounds of Cancun is a growing drug war, fueled by widespread police corruption, the partial disruption of once-popular trafficking routes through Haiti and a sudden turf battle between two of the country's main drug gangs.
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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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Mexico gave the military salary increases of almost 50 percent on Monday to reward it for leading the fight against violent drug gangs.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4 -- Drug cartels are trying to influence the outcomes of major elections in Mexico by kidnapping and threatening candidates, according to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
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President Vicente Fox said on   Tuesday Mexico would extradite more drug bosses to the United   States after the handover of major trafficker Francisco Rafael   Arellano Felix.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
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Mexico's new president pledged Saturday to substantially raise the wages of the armed forces, calling them a crucial weapon against heavily armed drug gangs terrorizing the nation.
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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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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Wednesday he wants to phase out the army's role in fighting drug traffickers as the country works to reform its notoriously corrupt police forces.
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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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APATZINGAN, Mexico  - Mexican soldiers searched cars at checkpoints and the navy patrolled coastal areas on Tuesday in a crackdown on feuding drug gangs that have terrorized a western state.