After lynchings, Mexico looks inward
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SAN JUAN IXTAYOPAN, Mexico -- A pair of wooden crosses outside the elementary school are all that mark the macabre site where, just weeks ago, an angry mob captured two federal police officers, beat them unconscious, and set them on fire.
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Hundreds of inmates' relatives gathered outside Mexico's top-security prison on Sunday as federal authorities announced plans to occupy the facility for at least another week.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - One night in May 1994, former U.S. naval officer Saul Sanchez and his wife Abigail were getting ready for the theater in this northern Mexican city when armed men banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - The real-life murders of  hundreds of Mexican women in a grim industrial city on the U.S.  border get a religious twist in a new Hollywood film, one of  the movie's stars said on Wednesday.
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NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico In the luminous opening scene of Gabriel GarcÃÂ¿a MÃÂ¿rquez's classic novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Aureliano BuendÃÂ¿a confronts a memory.
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Bridges to Mexico in this traffic-choked city began testing a new immigration security program Monday that requires some U.S. visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed as they cross the border.
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FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico  - In a land of  pyramids and jungle temples, one of Mexico's most curious and  elusive artifacts is an old wooden cross said to have spoken to  Mayan Indians and roused them to rebellion.
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For decades, political activism in Mexico often meant showing up at rallies, voting for the ruling party and picking up a bag of fertilizer, a basket of food or even cash.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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A crowd angry about recent child kidnappings cornered plainclothes federal agents taking photos of students at a school on Mexico City's outskirts and burned the officers alive, the latest example of mob justice in a country beset by corrupt police and high crime.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican police raided a town to search for members of an angry mob who lynched two officers a day earlier, but said they had been powerless to prevent the attack.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - A heavy police presence in Mexico's troubled tourist city of Oaxaca has knocked the wind out of protests to oust a state governor, giving President Felipe Calderon room to breathe in his first days in office.
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Many immigrants sent by the U.S. back to Mexico have little real connection with the country. Now Mexico is trying to help with "humane repatriation"
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Elvira Arellano is back in Mexico, and opponents of illegal immigration hope her deportion will mark the start of a crackdown. But that isn't likely
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A monthlong festival called MexicoNow has highlighted the challenges of defining cultural identity.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24 - This city seemed in a state of shock on Wednesday as people struggled to come to grips with the scenes of lawlessness captured on television as an angry mob lynched two police officers
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Faced with the growing tide of imported Christmas trees, Mexico has set a goal of growing its own. It's not so much a nationalistic stance as a tacit acknowledgment that the Christmas tree, once alien to Mexican tradition, is here to stay.