Mexican Drug Gangs Target U.S. Citizens for Kidnap
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Marauding drug gangs in a violent  Mexican border city have turned to kidnapping U.S. citizens for  ransom as they seek to diversify their criminal activities, the  U.S. government warned on Friday.
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Mexico extradited a member of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling family to the United   States on Saturday where he has been wanted since the 1980s on   drug charges, a source in the prosecutor general's office said.
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BOGOTA -- Police captured a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel yesterday, the latest arrest in a US-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s. Dagoberto Florez was on a list of most wanted alleged cocaine kingpins sought by US authorities under a court ...
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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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URUAPAN, Mexico  - A morgue worker wheels the   mutilated remains of a pregnant woman past two severed heads --   all victims of a Mexican drug war that has descended into   barbarity and is terrorizing once-quiet towns.
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An alleged leader of a powerful drug gang was caught near the border with California, Mexican officials announced Monday, calling it a blow to a syndicate they say is smuggling nearly half the illegal drugs crossing the U.S.-Mexico frontier.
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Eleven alleged hit men for a powerful drug cartel were captured Tuesday at two Mexico City mansions stocked with grenades and automatic weapons Â a day after Mexican authorities reported nabbing one of the cartel's reputed leaders.
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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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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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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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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The United States has captured a suspected leader of Mexico's powerful Gulf drug cartel and one of the country's most wanted men, Carlos "El Puma" Landin, while he was shopping in Texas, the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Tuesday.
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Four gunmen abducted three U.S. citizens on a rural highway in southern Mexico, shot and killed two of them and left the third &#151; a pregnant woman &#151; bound and gagged, authorities said Saturday.
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Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence against women and human exploitation, as rights groups urge the government to do more to investigate the killings of women, especially along the U.S. border.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across  the border into the United States and who had a $2 million  price tag on his head, the government said on Monday.
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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars in cash, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Hit men 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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Drug battles and 27 abductions of Americans trigger Mexico advisory.