U.S. smashes Mexican drug gang
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U.S. agents smashed a Mexican drug trafficking network by arresting more than 400 people and seizing over 18 tonnes of narcotics, authorities said on Wednesday.
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The US says it has smashed a gang planning to smuggle 135,000 fake Nike shoes from China into the US.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 -- Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released Thursday.
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Authorities in Italy and the United States conducted raids Thursday targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic, officials said.
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Police claim to have disrupted one of the biggest gangs smuggling illigal immigrants
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A blitz by federal agents during the last three weeks captured nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country in raids targeting child molesters, violent gang members and past deportees who re-entered the country.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Hitmen from Mexico's drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honor by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.
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Dozens of Mexican and Central Americans with ties to violent southern California street gangs have been arrested or indicted on drugs, weapons and immigration charges, immigration officials in Los Angeles said on Wednesday.
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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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The US promises Mexico access to a database to trace arms smuggled from the US to Mexican drug gangs.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Hundreds of heavily armed  federal police patrolled cities near Mexico's border with Texas  on Monday in an assault on drug cartels that have defied  President Vicente Fox's government with a spate of killings.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21 -- Mexico's army announced on Monday the capture of Alfredo BeltrÃÂ¿n Leyva, thought to be one of the nation's most powerful and violent drug lords.
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Mexico's national pride, bruised time and again by a steady invasion of U.S. investors and culture, took another blow on Monday when one of its finest tequila makers was swallowed up by an American company.
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American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in a takedown of the remnants of New York's Gambino crime family also meant to cripple a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking operation run by the Mafia.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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Increased security on the U.S.-Mexican   border is turning human smuggling into a multi-billion dollar   criminal industry and attracting violent gangs with ties to   Mexican drug cartels, authorities say.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police fought a fierce battle with suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a town near the U.S. border on Monday, and one police officer was killed, witnesses and Mexican media said.