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Zetas break out of prison in Mexico. Who are they?
According to Mexican authorities, the Zetas have become the biggest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. On Feb. 19 Zeta members allegedly instigated a prison riot, killing members of the opposing Gulf Cartel, and covering up their escape. Here are four questions about the Zetas, answered.
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The Zetas now Mexico's largest drug gang. Who are they?
According to Mexican authorities, the Zetas have become the biggest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. A recent report from Stratfor, based on data from Mexico's attorney general's office, says the group now operates in 17 states, surpassing the geographical sway of the once-dominant Sinaloa Federation.
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Sinaloa group 101: Five facts about Mexico's powerful drug cartel
The Sinaloa cartel is the most powerful drug trafficking organization operating in Mexico – and, some say, in the Western Hemisphere. Who are they?
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Mexico's most powerful drug cartels
Mexico declared a major victory Wednesday when it arrested the leader of the La Familia drug gang and 50 of its members, calling the group finished after the arrests. Here’s a look at Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels.
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Latin America Monitor
Mexico's Gulf Cartel increasingly relies on women
The number of women working in the drug trade is estimated to have grown in Mexico by 400 percent between 2007 and 2010, writes guest blogger Patrick Corcoran.
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Latin America Monitor
Latin America's economic rise may be undercut by violence
Latin America is on the rise with strong regional GDPs and decreasing poverty rates. Yet homicide rates have grown by 30 percent in recent years, threatening to spoil 'Latin America's Decade.'
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Latin America Monitor
Mexico cartels stronger than ever?
Recent report says Mexico's cartels are more powerful than they were when Calderón came to office, but this overlooks the fracturing of larger gangs, writes guest blogger Patrick Corcoran.
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Zetas break out of prison in Mexico. Who are they?
According to Mexican authorities, the Zetas have become the biggest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. On Feb. 19 Zeta members allegedly instigated a prison riot, killing members of the opposing Gulf Cartel, and covering up their escape. Here are four questions about the Zetas, answered.
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The Zetas now Mexico's largest drug gang. Who are they?
According to Mexican authorities, the Zetas have become the biggest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. A recent report from Stratfor, based on data from Mexico's attorney general's office, says the group now operates in 17 states, surpassing the geographical sway of the once-dominant Sinaloa Federation.
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Latin America Monitor
Honduras: home to the most violent city in the hemisphere?
Amid rising crime, the Peace Corps pulled out of in Honduras this week.
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Latin America Monitor
Is Mexico close to capturing its most wanted fugitive?
Mexico's arrest of Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, a Sinaloa security chief, suggests that the government is homing in on Sinaloa leader Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman, the world's most wanted mobster.
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Mexico's other challenge: to burnish its brand
Can Mexico help the world see past its escalating drug war, and showcase all that it offers?
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Latin America Monitor
In debate, Romney, Perry warn of Islamist terrorists in Latin America. Are they right?
In last night's Republican presidential debate on foreign policy, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry warned that Hezbollah and Hamas are operating in Latin America and pose a major threat to the US.
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Sinaloa group 101: Five facts about Mexico's powerful drug cartel
The Sinaloa cartel is the most powerful drug trafficking organization operating in Mexico – and, some say, in the Western Hemisphere. Who are they?
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Latin America Monitor
Schools shuttered in Acapulco show impact of Mexican drug gangs on civilians
Schools in the city shut their doors for weeks after teachers became extortion targets for Mexican drug gangs.
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Latin America Monitor
Mexico body dump: result of a gang war?
Mexican officials identified several of the bodies dumped on a Mexican highway as Zeta gang members. A gang linked to the Sinaloa Cartel claimed responsibility for the murders.
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Latin America Monitor
Why a truce between Mexico and the drug cartels makes no sense
After the latest massacre of Mexican citizens, former President Fox said authorities should seek a truce with the gangs – a suggestion that isn't feasible, says guest blogger Patrick Corcoran.
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How Mexican killers got US guns from 'Fast and Furious' operation
US officials thought they would catch Mexican criminals in a bold gun-running sting called 'Fast and Furious.' Instead, they inadvertently armed drug cartels as the operation spiraled out of control, a congressional report finds.
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Latin America Monitor
Mexico isn't in cahoots with Sinaloa drug cartel, says government
The latest in the Mexican government’s series of 'myth-busting' videos challenges the idea that authorities aren't doing enough to hunt down Joaquin Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Latin America Monitor
Hezbollah in Latin America: prioritizing the threat
The Congressional subcommittee hearing Thursday on Hezbollah's presence in Latin America distracts from other, bigger regional threats, warns guest blogger James Bosworth.
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Mexico's most powerful drug cartels
Mexico declared a major victory Wednesday when it arrested the leader of the La Familia drug gang and 50 of its members, calling the group finished after the arrests. Here’s a look at Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels.
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Latin America Monitor
La Familia drug cartel defeated, says Mexico
La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, has been arrested and Mexican authorities contend that the group's reign in the state of Michoacán has come to an end.
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How long will Al Qaeda live beyond bin Laden? Lessons from Latin America.
A real-world example of why Al Qaeda could live well beyond Osama bin Laden, Latin America has found limited results from taking out leaders of deadly ideological insurgencies.
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Golf star Lorena Ochoa swings strong in face of Mexico drug war
Lorena Ochoa teed off in her first PGA Tour event since retiring nearly a year ago, her star power lending a needed boost to sports events in violence-wracked Mexico.
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Mexico drug war death toll up 60 percent in 2010. Why?
The government on Wednesday announced that 15,273 people died in the Mexico drug war in 2010.
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Decapitated bodies in Acapulco spotlight drug war's toll on tourism
Mexican tourists who still flock to Acapulco after foreigners have shunned the tourist destination due to drug-war violence may think twice after 15 decapitated bodies were found outside a shopping center Saturday.
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Mexico earthquake was 6.7 magnitude
Mexico earthquake: The tremor struck about 72 miles south of Los Mochis, a city just inland from the coast in Sinaloa. It was centered at a relatively shallow depth of 5.6 miles.
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Can young mom Marisol Valles Garcia clean up a dangerous Mexican town?
Marisol Valles Garcia, a young woman named police chief of a Mexican border town gripped by drug violence, is garnering attention and promising a new approach.
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College student fills her Mexico town's toughest job: police chief
Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old college student who was the only person willing to become police chief of the northern Mexico town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, says she plans to use a mostly female, unarmed force to patrol streets.
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