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The decision was based on concerns that the country was not doing enough to protect its people from abuses by the police and the military.

Migrants are apparently dying at the hands of a drug gang seeking money or possibly recruits, officials said, though no nobody knows for sure.

Migrants are apparently dying at the hands of a drug gang seeking money or possibly recruits, officials said, though no nobody knows for sure.

Eight employees of a Cancun strip club were killed early Tuesday when a group of men threw Molotov cocktails into the building in a working-class area not frequented by tourists.

The man, known as La Barbie, could be extradited to the United States to face charges of cocaine trafficking.

The assassination was the latest episode of increasing drug-driven violence in Tamaulipas State, near the Gulf of Mexico.

Mayor Marco Antonio Leal Garcia of Hidalgo, a town in the violence-plagued state of Tamaulipas, has been assassinated, the second killing of a mayor in the area in as many weeks.

Walid Makled García has been branded a major kingpin by the United States government.

Juan Pereda Asbún, 79, president of Bolivia for four months in 1978, has been sent to a drug rehabilitation clinic after being arrested on suspicion of committing an obscene act while under the influence of drugs, the police said Wednesday.

With the pace of killings rising, President Felipe Calderón set up high-level forums in an effort to show that the Mexican government was willing to engage its critics and listen to suggestions.

With the pace of killings rising, President Felipe Calderón plans a meeting to show that his government is willing to engage its critics and listen to suggestions.

President Obama signed legislation on Tuesday reducing sentencing disparities between those caught with crack and those arrested with powder cocaine.

The coordinated raid that led to the death of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal on Thursday may make way for a competing cartel.

Javier Canales and Alejandro Hernández, both camera operators, had been kidnapped earlier in the week by suspected drug traffickers seeking to silence the media.

Javier Canales and Alejandro Hernández, both camera operators, had been kidnapped earlier in the week by suspected drug traffickers seeking to silence the media.

Nearly 100 people have been arrested in a sweep of marijuana-growing operations that has netted more than $1.7 billion worth of the plant in the Sierra Nevada range.