Mexican president says poverty now first priority
November 25, 2009
| MARK STEVENSON
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that the top priority in the second half of his term will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels ...
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November 25, 2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that the top priority in the second half of his term will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels took center...
Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence
November 20, 2009
| MARK STEVENSON
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad...
Afghan opium a growing menace, U. N. report says
October 21, 2009
| Tom Lasseter
In May, the head of Russia's federal drug-control service, Viktor Ivanov, said that about 180 Afghan drug cartels were trafficking heroin to Russia.'' The majority of these...
Venezuela turns over drug suspect wanted by US
October 01, 2009
El Aissami said Thursday that Venezuelan authorities are investigating possible ties between Mendez and drug cartels in Colombia and the United States. The justice minister held...
Larger stashes of meth being found in state
October 27, 2009
| DesMoinesRegister.com
'' The drug cartels are moving a lot of meth out of Mexico,'' Reinhold said.'' We are seeing larger amounts in Nebraska and Iowa.'' He said the FBI alone has seized...
Mexico now embracing U. S. training in drug war
October 29, 2009
| azcentral.com | news
Dozens of American agents are helping to train Mexican police recruits as part of a $1.4 billion U.S. aid project aimed at helping Mexico fight its drug cartels. ...
How to Stop America's Creeping Water Crisis
October 27, 2009
| digg
California has its share of problems these days; the state carries billions of dollars in debt, drug cartels have made their way in from Mexico and the wild fire season came and...
Murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at all- time high
October 21, 2009
| SFGate: Top News Stories
A violent and ongoing battle between two powerful drug cartels has pushed this northern border city's murder rate _ already one of the highest in the world _ to new records in...
Mexican drug cartels sold stolen oil to US
August 11, 2009
| Boing Boing
Oil refineries in the United States purchased millions of Amercan pesos' worth of oil that drug cartel operatives stole from Mexican government pipelines, then smuggled over the...
Calif. wildfire blamed on Mexican drug cartels
August 18, 2009
| On Deadline
California authorities now believe a wildfire that has burned more than 88,000 acres in Santa Barbara County was started at a marijuana field run by a Mexican drug cartel. At a...
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