Mexico drug violence "boiling over": U.S. official
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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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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6 -- Faced with growing complaints about alleged human rights abuses, Mexican President Felipe CalderÃÂ¿n said Wednesday he would consider using the military less to fight drug cartels.
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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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Moving to halt a bloody drug war in this popular beach resort, Mexico investigated the federal prosecutor's office Wednesday and arrested a local official in the killings of nine people, including three federal agents.
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A U.S. alert about violence along the border in Mexico created unexpected friction with a crucial neighbor Thursday, just as new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other new members of President Bush's team are starting to take office.
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The ferocious rate of killings in Mexico's drug war is unlikely to slow despite President Felipe Calderon's military assault on the cartels, a senior U.S. anti-drug official said on Monday.
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Mexico wants a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured.
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Amid record seizures of cocaine and massive spraying of coca plantations, a senior U.S. official says the "tipping point" in the war on drugs has finally been reached. But skeptics are unconvinced and say the war remains unwinnable.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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Mexican President-elect Felipe   Calderon views violent disturbances in the tourist city of   Oaxaca, where protesters are trying to oust the governor, as   the country's biggest challenge, a top aide said on Tuesday.
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High-ranking Mexican and American  officials met for an hour and issued a joint statement on  Saturday as they sought to defuse a spat sparked by U.S.  criticism of the local war on drugs and a travel warning.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday that drug traffickers' threats against his government would not stop a military crackdown against them, and he demanded that the United States do more to fight the sale and consumption of drugs domestically.
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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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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said there will be "no truce and no quarter" in his war on drug gangs following the killing of seven law enforcement officials in an apparent attempt to intimidate the federal government.
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A drug gang has threatened to kill foreign journalists who report on the violence between rival cartels and security forces along the U.S.-Mexico border, media and U.S. officials said on Friday.
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Mexico announced plans on Thursday to broaden its fight against feuding drug gangs, saying it would dispatch soldiers to other areas after sending 7,000 troops and police to one violence-plagued state this week.
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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.