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US Troops Headed to Mexican Border

National Guard presence to be especially strong in Arizona

(Newser) - National Guard troops are headed to the Mexican border next month to beef up security along the border fence. As part of President Obama's new border plan, the 1,200 troops will spend a year in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, where they'll help border patrol agents monitor and...

Family Abandons Son With Dead Sister

They flee to Mexico, leaving toddler's body

(Newser) - A family has fled back home to Mexico with their three biological children, abandoning their adopted 4-year-old son in their house with his dead toddler sister, according to law enforcement authorities. The girl's body showed signs of extreme trauma when it was found in a southern California home, said police....

17 Machine-Gunned at Mexican Party

Drug hitmen blamed in gruesome attack

(Newser) - Gunmen stormed a birthday party in the northern Mexico city of Torreon yesterday, killing 17 people and injuring 10. The attackers, reported to be drug hitmen, sprayed more than 200 bullets at partygoers inside a walled garden, reports the BBC. "They came in, opened fire and shot against everything...

Americans Allege Torture by Mexican Soldiers

Jailed Texans say army planted drugs

(Newser) - It sounds like the script of a B movie, but it's very real for two Americans behind bars in Mexico: They tell the Wall Street Journal that Mexican soldiers stopped their pickup near the border, planted two suitcases of drugs, then beat and tortured them with electric shocks. The Texas...

Cartel Shootout Kills 21 Just 12 Miles From Arizona Border

Gangs clashed over control of smuggling corridor

(Newser) - A massive shootout between rival drug and people-smuggling gangs left 21 people dead just 12 miles south of the border with Arizona, Mexican authorities say. The clash erupted in a remote area along a prime smuggling corridor in Sonora state, AP reports. All the dead are believed to be gang...

Mexico Busts Cop Boss Turned Cartel Hitman Chief

'El Tyson' masterminded assassination plots

(Newser) - Mexico has arrested a former police commander who changed sides to rise through the ranks of the La Familia drug cartel. Miguel Ortiz Miranda—alias "El Tyson"—is accused of organizing teams of hitmen for the cartel. He has been linked to the attempted assassination of a security...

Hurricane Alex Slams Mexico
 Hurricane Alex Slams Mexico 
Jul 1, 2010 1:20 AM CDT

Hurricane Alex Slams Mexico

Storm spawns Texas tornadoes

(Newser) - Hurricane Alex has hit northeastern Mexico, walloping the nation's Gulf coast with winds up to 100 miles per hour and spawning tornadoes in Texas. Thousands of people have been evacuated on both sides of the border, AP reports. The storm is weakening as it moves inland, but authorities warn that...

6.5 Quake Hits Mexico
 6.5 Quake Hits Mexico 
Jun 30, 2010 4:20 AM CDT

6.5 Quake Hits Mexico

No casualties reported yet, epicenter in Oaxaca

(Newser) - A 6.5-magnitude quake in southern Mexico early this morning shook buildings as far away as Mexico City. The epicenter of the earthquake, which struck at 2:22 am local time, was 75 miles west-southwest of Oaxaca City. So far, no casualties, injuries or damaged buildings have been reported, but...

Popular Mexican Governor Candidate Assassinated

Cartel blamed for highest-level hit in 14 years

(Newser) - Gunmen believed to be from a drug cartel have assassinated a leading politician running for governor in Mexico's Tamaulipas state. Rodolfo Torre Cantu, his campaign chief, his chief of staff, and at least one bodyguard were killed when their convoy was ambushed en route to an election rally, the Wall ...

Mexican Singer El Shaka Shot Dead by Drug Thugs

Rival gang kills crooner who praised dope lord

(Newser) - Just hours after Mexican singer Sergio "El Shaka" Vega denied reports he had been murdered, he was shot dead by a suspected drug crew on his way to a concert. The popular star was a Grupero or narcocorrido singer who extolled the exploits of drug barons and their crews,...

Obama Asks Congress for $600M Border Security Boost

Calls funds for staffing, fence repairs an 'emergency'

(Newser) - With Arizona's controversial new anti-illegal-immigrant law being blamed on weak federal enforcement, Barack Obama has formally asked Nancy Pelosi for $600 million to beef up security along the US/Mexico border. The president says the request will address “urgent and essential needs” and should be considered an emergency. The money...

Mexico Joins Arizona Immigration Lawsuit

Mexican government backs ACLU challenge to immigration law

(Newser) - The latest party jumping on the Arizona anti-illegal immigration lawsuit bandwagon? The Mexican government. Joining the Obama administration, the ACLU, and several other organizations' legal challenges to the yet-to-be-enacted law, the Mexican government submitted papers in US federal court as a "friend of the court" in support of the...

French Team Mutinies After World Cup Striker Axed

They boycott training

(Newser) - France's World Cup team is refusing to practice since a player was sent home after a furious row with a coach during a disastrous game against Mexico. Bizarrely, the players announced their protest through a statement read by the same coach. "All players without exception want to declare their...

Mexico Hires PR Firm
 Mexico Hires PR Firm 
MORE TO MEXICO THAN MURDER
Jun 17, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

Mexico Hires PR Firm

Prez wants to clean up bloody image

(Newser) - Mexico has launched a huge PR campaign to persuade the world that despite the headlines, there's much more to the country than massacres and grisly drug cartel slayings. Over 23,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006, which is scaring off tourists and investors. "We are hiring...

Violence Ends Mexican School Year

Cartel kilings shut classrooms

(Newser) - Education is the latest victim of the drug war in the Mexican state of Nayarit. The governor is ending the school year for elementary and middle school students 3 weeks early so parents will have less to fear, CNN reports. Drug-related violence has killed at least 30 people in the...

15 Killed in Mexico Tourist Town Shootout

Suspected cartel members killed in Taxco battle

(Newser) - The Mexican army killed 15 suspected drug cartel members in an hour-long shootout in the tourist town of Taxco yesterday. Troops returned fire after being shot at when they arrived at a house to investigate reports of criminal activity, CNN reports. Authorities have stepped up anti-cartel operations in Taxco since...

Matador Arrested for Fleeing Bull
 Matador Arrested 
 for Fleeing Bull 
'i didn't have the balls'
Jun 15, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

Matador Arrested for Fleeing Bull

He ran from the ring...twice

(Newser) - It looks like a scene out of a comedy flick, but it’s real: A terrified matador throws himself over the perimeter wall in an attempt to escape a charging bull, then is coaxed back into the ring…only to flee again. It gets better: Christian Hernandez, 22, was actually...

29 Die in Mexican Prison Massacre

10 police killed in convoy ambush

(Newser) - At least 29 inmates were killed yesterday as drug cartels clashed at a prison in Mexico's Sinaloa state. Three policeman guarding the prison were injured, and 20 inmates were shot to death when one gang forced its way into another cell block and opened fire on its rivals, AP reports....

Mexico Gunmen Kill 35
 Mexico Gunmen Kill 35 
Jun 12, 2010 10:43 AM CDT

Mexico Gunmen Kill 35

Nineteen victims were at a rehab clinic

(Newser) - At least 30 gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation center in a Mexican border state capital and opened fire, killing 19 men and wounding four people, police said. Gunmen also killed 16 people in another drug-plagued northern city. The killings—in Chihuahua city and in Ciudad Madero—marked one of...

Video Undercuts Border Agent's Self-Defense Claim

Mexican teen shot at border 'had smuggling record'

(Newser) - A US Border Patrol agent's account of the fatal shooting of a teen at the Mexican border this week is contradicted by a video obtained by CNN. The video, shot by a witness on the Mexican side of the border, shows an officer aiming at a suspect 60 feet away....

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