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Music: Minstrels in the Court of the Kingpin
The monitoring of Los Tucanes’ music is part of a wider effort by the Mexican government to crack down on narcocorridos.
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2 Top Guatemalan Police Officials Are Arrested on Drug Charges
The national police chief and the head of the antinarcotics unit were charged in connection with a gunfight last April in which five officers died.
This Land: Border Towns Across Rio, Worlds Apart in Drug War
As the drug-cartel war rages in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the Rio Grande is the divide between violence and peace, with El Paso as a kind of sanctuary city.
World Briefing | The America: Mexico: Leader of Attack Reported Killed by Soldiers
The man who led a deadly weekend attack on teenagers in Ciudad Juárez was himself killed the next day in a gun battle with soldiers, Chihuahua state officials said.
Colombian Paramilitaries’ Successors Called a Threat
The Human Rights Watch report says that criminal armies are spreading their reach across the country’s economy while engaging in a broad range of rights abuses.
Gunmen in Mexico Kill 16 in Attack on a Teenagers’ Party
The attack in the violent border city of Ciudad Juárez bore the signs of the drug-related violence that has killed thousands.
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Gunmen in Mexico Kill 13 at Party
The attack in the violent border city of Ciudad Juárez bore the signs of the drug-related violence that has killed thousands.
National Briefing | Washington: Hundreds Arrested in Drug Raids
A total of 476 people were arrested last week by immigration agents, who said those detained were members of international drug-trafficking gangs.
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War Without Borders: In Drug War, Tribe Feels Invaded by Both Sides
An Indian reservation is caught between the U.S. and Mexico as a major transit point for drugs as well as people.
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War Without Borders: In Drug War, Tribe Feels Invaded by Both Sides
An Indian reservation is caught between the U.S. and Mexico as a major transit point for drugs as well as people.
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Gang Brawl Inside Mexico Prison Leaves 23 Dead
A prison riot between members of rival drug gangs broke out at an state penitentiary in northern Mexico and authorities said 23 inmates were killed.
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Mexico Holds Drug Suspect Accused of Grisly Tactics
The authorities announced the capture of a drug lord whose trademark was boiling his victims in barrels of lye.
Mexico Drug Lord Caught, Officials Say
Officials from the U.S. and Mexico said authorities have arrested reputed Tijuana drug kingpin Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental on the Baja California peninsula.
World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Facing Charges in U.S.
Colombia sent its best-known financial swindle, David Murcia, to the United States to face charges that he laundered millions of dollars of cocaine proceeds.
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Mexico Announces Capture of Drug Lord
The capture of Carlos Beltran Levya comes two weeks after Mexican troops killed his brother. The two men and their three brothers founded the cartel.
War Without Borders: Along U.S.-Mexico Border, a Torrent of Illicit Cash
As the U.S. has clamped down on sophisticated money-laundering schemes, drug money is being smuggled the old-fashioned way.
War Without Borders: Along U.S.-Mexico Border, a Torrent of Illicit Cash
As the U.S. has clamped down on sophisticated money-laundering schemes, drug money is being smuggled the old-fashioned way.
World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Arrests in Deaths of Sailor’s Kin
Mexican authorities have arrested four people in connection with the fatal attack on Ensign Melquisedet Angulo Córdova’s family on Tuesday.
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Revenge in Drug War Chills Mexico
Gunmen killed four relatives of a sailor who died last week in a special forces assault that killed a top drug lord.
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War Without Borders: Hired by Customs, but Working for Mexican Cartels
The authorities say drug traffickers, facing heightened border security, have stepped up efforts to corrupt agents.
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War Without Borders: Hired by Customs, but Working for Mexican Cartels
The authorities say drug traffickers, facing heightened border security, have stepped up efforts to corrupt agents.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Man Suspected of Leading a Drug Cartel Is Killed in a Shootout
One of the most wanted figures in the drug war was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy on Wednesday, an official said.
World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: United States Delivers 5 Helicopters
The United States delivered five helicopters to Mexico on Tuesday to help the country fight drug traffickers.
National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Ruling on Cellphone Search
A divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled that police officers must obtain a search warrant before scouring the contents of a suspect’s cellphone unless their safety is in danger.
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Retrofitted Vehicles Offer Window Into Mexico’s Cartels
Much can be learned about the drug traffickers that the Mexican Army is combating by examining their confiscated, decked-out vehicles.
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War Without Borders: How U.S. Became Stage for Mexican Drug Feud
Prosecutors in San Diego say kidnappers and hit men operated for years after splitting from a drug cartel.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Honduras: Gunmen Kill Drug Official
Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Honduras’s top antidrug official Tuesday as he rode in his car in the capital, Tegucigalpa.
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U.S. Adds Drones to Fight Smuggling
The Homeland Security Department is expanding its use of unmanned aircraft beyond the Mexican and Canadian borders to the Caribbean and possibly other seas.
U.S. Adds Drones to Fight Smuggling
The Homeland Security Department is expanding its use of unmanned aircraft beyond the Mexican and Canadian borders to the Caribbean and possibly other seas.
Rights Group Report Faults Mexican Army’s Conduct in Drug War
Amnesty International is scheduled to release a report raising allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary detentions.
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Mexico Still Waiting for U.S. Aid, Report Says
The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Drug Smuggler Sentenced to 27 Years
Gilberto Salinas Doria was convicted for helping to smuggle at least 200 tons of cocaine from Mexico to the United States for the notorious Juárez cartel.
World Briefing | The Americas: Drug Smuggler Sentenced to 27 Years
Gilberto Salinas Doria was convicted for helping to smuggle at least 200 tons of cocaine from Mexico to the United States for the notorious Juárez cartel.
15 Are Indicted in Chicago in Push on Mexican Cartel
Federal authorities said that they had struck a blow against a major Mexican drug trafficking group operating significant cocaine distribution networks in Chicago.
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15 Are Indicted in Chicago in Push on Mexican Cartel
Federal authorities said that they had struck a blow against a major Mexican drug trafficking group operating significant cocaine distribution networks in Chicago.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: 9 Soldiers Killed in Attack by Rebels
The offensive by guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia took place in the southwest part of the country that officials say the guerrillas use for cocaine smuggling.
Gunmen Kill Union Leader in Mexico
Gunmen ambushed a peasant union leader and his family in northern Mexico, killing him and 14 others in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a hit by drug cartels.
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U.S. and Mexico Agree on Shift in Drug Trials
In a break with a longstanding drug enforcement practice, the United States has returned a suspected marijuana smuggler over to his own country for trial.
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Labor Organizer and 14 Others Killed in Mexico
Margarito Montes, a well-known organizer of agricultural laborers, was found among bodies riddled with bullets in an area overrun by drug gangs.
U.S. Arrests Hundreds in Raids on Drug Cartel
Attorney General Eric Holder described a series of raids in 19 states to fight a major Mexican drug organization.
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U.S. Arrests Hundreds in Raids on Drug Cartel
Attorney General Eric Holder described a series of raids in 19 states to fight a major Mexican drug organization.
National Briefing | Midwest: Minnesota: Bong Water Called Drug
A decision from the states Supreme Court raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers in that state who fail to dump the water out of a pipe often used to smoke drugs.
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National Briefing | West: California: Arrests in Marijuana Ring
Federal authorities announced charges against 18 people they said operated a lucrative marijuana-growing operation by converting homes into high-tech marijuana nurseries.
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Violence in the Newest Olympic City Rattles Brazil
Weeks after Rio de Janeiro was selected to host the Olympics, drug bandits shot down a police helicopter.
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In Mexican Drug War, Investigators Are Fearful
Swamped with homicides, investigators cope with too little expertise and too much corruption, and they are targets themselves.
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Justices Seem Sympathetic to Defendant Given Bad Advice
The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether bad legal advice about a collateral consequence of a guilty plea amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
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U.S. Falters in Screening Border Patrol Near Mexico