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Expert: Mexican Drug Cartels Infesting US, Even Our National Parks
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsLost in the rhetoric about illegal immigration are new reports that Mexican drug cartels have moved into the United States, gaining a major foothold here that may be the start of a permanent expansion onto this side of the border. They're even growing marijuana in our national parks, one expert says. Mexico's cartel families and their associates have moved into cities in the southwestern U.S. as part of their ongoing drug selling and distribution operations, according to an alert from the U.S. Justice Department's Drug Intelligence Center, first reported April 11 by Mexican ...
Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said investigators are searching for more bodies at the pit found late Tuesday. The bodies were taken to a morgue in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Hours earlier, investigators in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found at least a dozen skeletal remains in a series of ...
Dozens of Bodies Found in Mexican Border State
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims. Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead. The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers ...
Gunmen Kill 5 at Mexican Border Bar
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY - Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths. A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the victims died of bullet wounds, burns or smoke inhalation, Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said the bodies were charred by the fire started by the gasoline bombs at the Barritas bar late Friday Raymundo Ruiz, AP People watch as ...
Obama, Calderon Commit to Stopping Drug Violence
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Thursday to deepen their cooperation in combating drug violence and declared a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. During a joint news conference at the White House, Obama praised Calderon for his "extraordinary courage" in fighting the violent drug cartels that have been responsible for deaths on both sides of the border. Obama pledged to speed up U.S. aid to train and equip Mexican forces to help in those efforts, but he also ...
Six Dead, 37 Injured in Attack on Mexican Nightclub
By not in system - AOL NewsGUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37 in a western city whose former tranquility has been shattered by escalating battles among drug cartels. The attack in Mexico's second-largest municipality took place just hours after a shootout between soldiers and presumed cartel gunmen left eight people, including an innocent driver, dead in the northeastern city of Monterrey. Monterrey is Mexico's third-largest city. In the Guadalajara attack, assailants in a Jeep Cherokee and a taxi drove ...
14 Decapitated Men Among 27 Slain in Mexican Resort of Acapulco
By Christine Riedel - AOL NewsACAPULCO, Mexico -- The bodies of 15 men, all but one of them headless, were found on a street outside a shopping center in Acapulco on Saturday as police reported 27 people slain in the Pacific resort in less than a day. The decapitated victims, all of whom appeared to be in their 20s, were discovered in an area not frequented by tourists. Handwritten signs left with the bodies were signed by "El Chapo's People" - a reference to the Sinaloa cartel, headed by drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of investigative police for Guerrero state, where Acapulco ...
Gunbattle Kills 11 in Western Mexican Town
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY (Dec. 11) -- A gunbattle between rival gangs killed 11 people during a Virgin of Guadalupe celebration in a western Mexican town, authorities said Saturday. Armed men arrived in three cars and opened fire on another group of gunmen in the main plaza of Tecalitlan just as a crowd was gathering Friday night, the Jalisco state attorney general's office said in a statement. One of the gunmen hurled a grenade. Eight men were killed at the scene and two others died at a hospital, the office said. Another man, the brother of one of those killed in the plaza, was found shot to death ...
Mexico Auctions Off 'Narco-Bling' at Annual Sale of Confiscated Goods
By J. Richard - AOL News
(Nov. 19) -- Ever wanted to buy a watch bedazzled with custom jeweled skulls, but didn't know where to look? Today, Mexican authorities are wrapping up an open auction of watches just like that and other pieces of confiscated "narco-bling" -- the unofficial name for the luxury goods taken from drug gang leaders -- as part of an effort to raise money for the war against drugs. Gang leaders are known for stocking up on narco-bling, which is often purchased with laundered money so the transaction is difficult for law enforcement to track, according to the BBC. Miguel Tovar, AP A seized ring ...
20 Killed Over Weekend in Mexican Border City
By not in system - AOL NewsCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Nov. 7) -- At least 20 people were killed in drug-gang violence over the weekend in this northern Mexican border city, including seven found dead outside one house. The seven men were believed to have been at a family party when they were gunned down Saturday night, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the attorney general's office in Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located. Five were found dead in a car, and the other two were shot at the entrance of the home. There have been several such massacres in Ciudad Juarez, a city held hostage by a nearly ...
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