Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:34 PM EST
Federal police have captured a man described as a key operator of the powerful Sinaloa cartel who served briefly in the U.S. army before taking on the trafficking of 2 tons of cocaine a month into the United States.
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Fri Feb 5, 2010 8:27 PM EST
Mexico already has many of its monuments on UNESCO's list of protected sites. Now the government is asking for international recognition for the country's cuisine.
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Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:37 PM EST
A new proposal from Mexico's ruling party could send musicians to prison for performing songs that glorify drug trafficking.
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Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:14 PM EST
Mexico — the epicenter of last year's swine flu outbreak — has received less than half of the 30 million vaccine doses it ordered last year, the country's health secretary said Tuesday.
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Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:38 AM EST
Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional.
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:49 PM EDT
Mexico's top security official on Friday proposed disbanding Mexico's 2,022 municipal police forces and combining them with state law enforcement agencies to better combat corruption and crime.
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:53 PM EDT
Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button.
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Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:55 PM EDT
The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.
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Thu Oct 8, 2009 9:03 PM EDT
One of the FBI's most-sought fugitives, wanted for the 2002 killings of his girlfriend and her two young sons in Idaho, has been captured in Mexico.
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Tue Oct 6, 2009 8:11 PM EDT
Efforts to film Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's latest novel are meeting resistance in Mexico, where an anti-prostitution group is seeking to block production, charging the movie will promote child prostitution.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:53 PM EDT
A former Mexican sports commissioner whose daughter was killed by her abductors criticized the government Wednesday for failing to combat crimes like kidnapping as aggressively as it fights drug trafficking.
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Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:22 PM EDT
The next wave of swine flu has arrived, and Mexicans are bracing for an outbreak that may be even larger than the one here last spring that became a pandemic.
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Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:51 PM EDT
Mexicans are overwhelmingly unhappy with the direction of their country, and one in three would immigrate to the United States if they could, a Pew Research Center survey said Wednesday.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:09 PM EDT
Mexican federal prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a claim that more than 1,000 items attributed to artist Frida Kahlo were forged.
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