In Mexico's drug wars, police given 'trust test'
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Hundreds of police have been suspended in a bid to stem trafficking-related corruption.
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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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Two jailed drug bosses have joined forces to beat back a massive offensive by the Juarez cartel, sparking a bloody turf war that has rocked the U.S.-Mexico border, the resort city of Cancun and other key smuggling corridors across the country, Mexico's top anti-narcotics prosecutor said Thursday.
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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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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars in cash, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Even if the bloody feud between cartels stops, the police force is badly compromised and must be rebuilt
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Drug battles and 27 abductions of Americans trigger Mexico advisory.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Mexican federal police will patrol the hotel zone of Acapulco day and night to prevent an outbreak of drug gang violence from affecting tourism, a senior police official said on Friday.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Suspected drug gunmen killed three senior policemen and some of their relatives in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a week after the government beefed up security against drug gangs, police said on Tuesday.
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Mexico sends thousands of troops to deal with a wave of drug-related crime in the western state of Michoacan.
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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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The United States asked Mexico on   Thursday to send federal security forces back to the border   city of Nuevo Laredo, which is still struggling with drug   violence despite a security crackdown last year.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Mexico vowed on Friday to  overhaul its anarchic prisons where drug lords are accused of  ordering high-profile killings and running narcotics operations  in defiance of President Vicente Fox's government.
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Soldiers take control of Mexico's highest-security jail, amid fears drug gangs are planning a breakout.
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Few places in Mexico are more notorious than Tijuana, with its reputation for easy sex, hard drugs and tequila-fueled debauchery &amp;#151; all a stone&#039;s throw from the U.S. Making the city as safe, clean and free of police corruption as its cross-border neighbor, San Diego, would be no small feat &amp;#151; and 18 months after taking office, the mayor who said he could do so now says it will never happen.
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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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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.