Lynching of agents puts Mexico focus on vigilante justice
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-- 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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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Mexican journalist Francisco  Arratia used to tap out daily columns sounding off against the  drug traffickers and corrupt cops that blighted his home city  on the U.S. border.
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Police say an angry mother-in-law was behind the slaying of a popular U.S. union leader who was shot in the back days before he was to meet with members of Central America's growing labor movement.
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Mexico's top electoral court began a marathon session Monday to rule on challenges to the July 2 presidential election, while feuds in two southern states exacerbated the political turmoil and protesters said they might try to attack foreign embassies.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that violence was a problem on both sides of the border and that U.S. officials need to work on their own rising crime rates.
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Mexican police admitted on Wednesday they were powerless to prevent an angry mob lynching two of their officers, in a gruesome attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.
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Two Mexico City police officers were among 29 people charged with homicide in the mob killings of two government agents who were beaten, doused with paint thinner and burned to death on the Mexican capital&#39;s southern outskirts
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An amateur video released Tuesday shows that Mexico City police were present late last month before a street mob beat three plainclothes federal agents and set two of them on fire, killing both men.
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Mexico's government plans sweeping  reforms to end rampant human rights violations, but experts  complain the plan lacks the teeth to stop police torture and  other abuses.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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Federal investigators said Thursday that two Mexico City police and 27 other people face homicide charges in the horrific vigilante killings of two federal agents this week.
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When Miguel David Meza Argueta heard last year that his cousin Neyra, a 20-year-old computer student, had disappeared, he said he immediately flew to this city in northern Mexico to help search for her. Hundreds of young women in the border state of Chihuahua, mainly in Ciudad Juarez, have been murdered in the past decade, so Meza said he feared the worst.
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Police in South America&#039;s largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
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MEXICO CITY -- Hundreds of soldiers stood watch outside Mexico's top-security prison yesterday, two days after the army and federal police seized control of the facility. The raid at La Palma, west of Mexico City, was conducted Friday after the brother of a reputed drug lord was shot inside the penitentiary, touching off a national scandal over corruption and crime ...
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Human rights groups and relatives  of women murdered near the Mexico-U.S. border want a  world-renowned Argentine forensic team to study more than 300  killings over the past decade, many of which are still  unsolved.
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MEXICO CITY -- Deadly assaults on two police stations by criminals wearing soldiers' uniforms have raised the pressure on Mexico's new president, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, to demonstrate that his much flaunted military-led crackdown on organized crime can stand up to the nation's powerful drug cartels.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Ten gang members were given  lengthy prison terms for the murders of 12 women in a Mexican  city on the U.S. border where hundreds of women have died in a  mysterious 12-year killing spree, court officials said on  Friday.