Drug War Brews in Glitzy Cancun
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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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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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An elite team hunts drug traffickers in the Southwest using generations-old techniques.
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CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay -- In this gritty border town known as a haven for drug smugglers, arms dealers, and counterfeiters, stacks of money change hands in the open on every corner and thousands of people stream each day across Friendship Bridge into Ciudad del Este.
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Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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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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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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There are concerns at the country's top maximum-security prison about a possible war between drug cartels and reports surfaced that some high-profile inmates might have been planning an escape.
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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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CANCUN, Mexico Police in Mexico are blaming nine murders in the Cancun (kan-KOON&#39;) area on a drug turf war. Five bodies have been found just off the highway leading to the airport.
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CANCUN, Mexico -- Police found the bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, in two areas Thursday near this Caribbean resort city, apparent victims of drug killings, officials said.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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Suspected drug smugglers have dumped the beheaded or mutilated bodies of five people around the Mexican capital in recent days in what appear to be revenge killings for a cocaine seizure at the airport.
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Once, drug gangs mostly fought each other, now they're joining forces to wage open warfare on the government
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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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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Mexican journalist Francisco  Arratia used to tap out daily columns sounding off against the  drug traffickers and corrupt cops that blighted his home city  on the U.S. border.
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Suspected drug gangsters murdered eight people execution-style in and around the Caribbean beach town of Cancun this week as a wave of brutal killings hit Mexico.