Mexican drug hit men scrawl threats on corpses
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Drug gang hit men killed three Mexican army informants on Tuesday and dumped them near a military training base close to the U.S. border, scrawling threats on the bodies in black ink, police said.
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MEXICO CITY -- The images are chilling: A young man, his face bloody and swollen, struggles to tell a television reporter that he is an undercover federal agent, then a mob burns him and another officer alive on camera.
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Mexico's new government announced Monday that it was sending more than 6,500 soldiers, marines and federal police to the western state of Michoacan to crack down on a wave of execution-style killings and beheadings that have left hundreds dead.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11 -- More than 5,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police officers swept into the troubled state of Michoacan on Monday hoping to quell a long, barbaric war between rival drug cartels.
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A violent Mexican drug gang took out a rare, half-page ad in newspapers in which they claimed to be anti-crime vigilantes who wanted to stop kidnapping, robbery and the sale of methamphetamine in the western state of Michoacan.
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MEXICALI, Mexico  - Mexican drug gangs are  peppering the U.S. border with small shipments of illegal  narcotics in a tactic known as "shotgunning" to beat increased  security, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
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APATZINGAN, Mexico -- Thousands of troops rolled into a key Mexican drug stronghold yesterday to set fire to marijuana and opium fields and round up traffickers -- an initiative ordered by President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n to restore order in a region where smugglers have defied authorities with beheadings and large-scale drug production.
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ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- AndrÃÂ©s Sauzo collects newspapers, astoundingly grisly newspapers.
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Mexico's new government, struggling with rampant drug trafficking and crime, ordered thousands of troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartels locked in a vicious turf war.
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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.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - An armed gang of suspected drug   traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the   dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an   apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
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Mexico's president-elect says murder and mayhem fueled by drug smuggling have overwhelmed the governments of the nation's capital and key states across the country.
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Mexican soldiers tortured, raped and murdered civilians last year while fighting a war across the country against violent drug gangs, the nation's top human rights official told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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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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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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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - From indigenous Indian  villages to violence-torn cities on the U.S. border, millions  of Mexicans trekked to cemeteries on Monday to honor their dead  with flowers, food and musical tributes.
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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.