Mexico's Narco-Insurgency
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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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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  put in a tepid performance in elections in a state it has run  since the 1920s, as it hit a bump on the long road toward its  goal of returning to power nationally in 2006.
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Nepal&#39;s communist insurgency has been flexing its muscles, with a successful blockade of the capital Kathmandu. Experts say the Maoists have modeled themselves on Peru&#39;s Shining Path, using violence to end Nepal&#39;s rigid caste system.
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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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Â·  Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit Â·  Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca
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Warring drug cartels have brought a surge in gruesome violence to this Mexican resort town.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico replaced the federal police chiefs from each of the country's 31 states and the Federal District yesterday, pending polygraph and drug tests to determine whether they are on the right side of the law in the nation's foundering drug war.
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The leftist rebels behind huge pipeline bombings in Mexico this week are from a small guerrilla group held together by family ties that has long personal and political grudges against the government.
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala  - In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
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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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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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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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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.
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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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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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Brazen daylight killings by presumed drug smugglers just up the hill from Acapulco Bay are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody drug wars will cripple Mexico's critical tourism industry.