CalderÃÂ³n's Offensive Against Drug Cartels
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MEXICO CITY -- Every Monday morning, President Felipe CalderÃÂ³n settles in at the head of the table in the presidential library at Los Pinos, Mexico's fortresslike chief executive's compound.
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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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Inmates are carrying out vendettas inside prison walls, planning escapes and running their outside-world drug empires &#151; even at Mexico's highest-security penitentiaries, prompting Mexico City's mayor to call for the army to intervene.
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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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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 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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A vicious Mexican drug gang war has  moved onto Internet video site YouTube, where rivals taunt each  other with blood-soaked slideshows and film of their murder  victims.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - A morgue worker wheels the   mutilated remains of a pregnant woman past two severed heads --   all victims of a Mexican drug war that has descended into   barbarity and is terrorizing once-quiet towns.
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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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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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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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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon's government wants to decriminalize first-time possession of small amounts of drugs in a move likely to draw criticism from U.S. anti-narcotics officials.
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MexicoÃÂs decision on whether to authorize a new network could prove to be President Felipe CalderÃÂ³nÃÂs first big test when it comes to taking on powerful business interests.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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Mexico sought to play down a U.S.  travel alert for Americans visiting the Mexican side of the  border and said any violence was contained to drugs gangs   and  that authorities were fighting to curb it.
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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.