Topic: Zacatecas
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Jailbreaks in Mexico: Wardens and guards often help drug cartel members flee
Los Zetas have regained hundreds of gang members in jailbreaks in recent years. The jailbreaks expose a side of Mexico's broken prison system, where wardens either bend to organized crime or face death.
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Latin America Monitor Rumored Zetas split: Would this bring more violence or peace for Mexico?
A weakening of the Zetas in the northeast may discourage the drug gang's forays into other parts of Mexico, but internal strife often leads to more murders, writes InSight Crime.
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Cover Story Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero
Tiny Tamaula is the new face of rural Mexico: Villagers are home again as the illegal immigration boom drops to net zero
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Mexico withers under worst drought in 71 years
Some 2.5 million Mexicans are affected by this extreme drought, which could cause widespread hunger for years to come.
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College-educated and illegal: Immigrants pin job hopes on DREAM Act
For most college educated illegal immigrants, landing a good job proves difficult. The DREAM Act would help some of them, but critics decry it as step toward a broad amnesty.
12/15/2010 03:27 pm -
Drug violence mars Mexico election
Voters brave enough to cast ballots for governors amid gruesome drug violence in the run-up to Sunday's Mexico election helped the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to win nine states handily.
07/05/2010 01:43 pm -
Billions for a US-Mexico border fence, but is it doing any good?
The cost for adding 600 miles of new barriers is $2.4 billion so far. The new fencing has been breached more than 3,000 times, a government report finds.
09/19/2009 01:00 am -
Bold prison break? Just another day in Mexico's drug war.
The freeing of more than 50 inmates at a state prison – allegedly by members of a drug cartel – garnered headlines worldwide.
05/20/2009 01:00 am -
Mexican workers send less cash home from the US
For the first time in 13 years, the flow of remittances to Mexico has fallen.
01/28/2009 12:00 am
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