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 temporarily removed all 284 of its top federal police officers from their jobs and is forcing them to undergo psychological reviews to prove they will not be corrupted in the fight against drug trafficking, the government said Monday.
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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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Colombia has dismantled its big drug cartels and captured high-living kingpins but police say the small, low-profile groups that have taken their place are harder to track down and can be more dangerous.
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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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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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NACO, Mexico -- The message came on police emergency radio: An army of drug traffickers with machine guns mounted on their pickup trucks was headed toward this town of 5,000 people on the Arizona-Mexico border.
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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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Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday that they have charged two policemen with protecting the Arellano Felix drug trafficking gang, whose alleged kingpin was recently arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Mexican police tightened security in the capital on Monday in the wake of a fatal bomb attack, but could still not say for sure whether drug gangs were behind the explosion.
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CUERNAVACA, Mexico  - The United States will stand by Latin American governments in their battle against powerful drug cartels, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vowed on Friday.
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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 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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Investigators tried to determine Thursday how a former police officer facing drug charges was able to escape with five other inmates from a privately run federal jail near the Mexican border.
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Mexican troops confiscate guns from a border town police force, on suspicion of collusion with drugs gangs.
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Streetwise cabbies in northern Mexico are cashing in on the chaos of a violent drug war by whisking wide-eyed visitors about town in macabre tours of seized narco properties and famous murder scenes, Mexico City's Reforma newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Mexican police probe claims rival drug gangs are taunting each other by posting bloody clips on the internet.