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Mexican Crime Reporter Shot to Death in Matamoros; 10th Press Slaying This Year
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- A Mexican crime reporter was killed this morning when he was caught in the middle of a gunfight in Matamoros, making him the 10th journalist to be killed in Mexico this year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That's six more journalists than have been killed in Iraq in all of 2010. Carlos Alberto Guajardo, 37, worked for Periodico El Expreso. He died on his day off, after being called in to report on a string of firefights going on around the city, the Brownsville Herald reported. Gun battles had broken out between the Mexican military and members of the Gulf and ...
Another Mayor Slain in Mexico, This Time By Stoning
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- A Mexican schoolteacher-turned-mayor was stoned to death along with one of his aides in the western state of Michoacan, authorities said Monday, making him the fifth mayor in less than six weeks to be killed in Mexico. Gustavo Sanchez, 29, became the interim mayor of Tancitaro in December after the town's mayor, city council and police department all resigned in light of threats from drug traffickers. The head of the city council had been kidnapped and killed earlier. Sanchez went missing on Saturday. Police found his body and the body of his secretary, Rafael Equihua ...
Mayor's Death Caps Another Bloody Week of Mexican Drug Violence
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- Mexican authorities say the mayor of a northern Mexico town was gunned down Thursday, making him the second mayor to be killed this month. Prisciliano Rodriguez, mayor of Doctor Gonzalez, a town about 30 miles east of Monterrey, was shot while driving to his ranch, MSNBC reports. A person who was with Rodriguez was also killed in the attack. Violence related to feuding drug cartels continues to go unchecked in Mexico, despite efforts by authorities to combat the epidemic. In the northern state of Nuevo Leon, where Monterrey and Doctor Gonzalez are located, 450 people have been ...
Report: 90 Percent of Drug War Guns Originate in US
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- A bloody, drug-fueled war is being waged just across the border in Mexico and a report out Tuesday finds that 90 percent of the guns traced from Mexican crime scenes since 2006 have originated in the United States. The report was released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group of more than 500 mayors from American towns and cities, and was based primarily on data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The new findings reinforce previous estimates while contradicting claims made last year by several news organizations, including Fox News and the Examiner, ...
Mexico Decriminalizes Pot, Cocaine and Heroin
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a bill passed by the country's congress last spring. The new measure decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines and heroin, setting limits for what constitutes "personal use" quantities. At the same time, it provides free treatment for those with drug addiction. The hope is that the law will distinguish casual users from addicts. Before, those arrested for drug possession -- even for small amounts -- were handed long jail terms. Studies show that drug use is on the rise in Mexico, calling into ...
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