CATHERINE E. SHOICHET

Associated Press Writer
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Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel cocaine trafficker

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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Mexico asks UNESCO to protect country's cuisine

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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Mexican ruling party proposes banning drug ballads

A new proposal from Mexico's ruling party could send musicians to prison for performing songs that glorify drug trafficking.

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Mexico still waiting for most swine flu vaccines

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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Mexican clergy seek global help as violence grows

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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Mexican official: Disband local police forces

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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Mexico's pink taxis cater to fed-up females

Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button.

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US-Mexico groups urges new US assault weapons ban

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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Mexico arrests 1 of FBI's most-wanted fugitives

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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Group sues in Mexico to stop Garcia Marquez movie

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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Victim's dad: Drug war distracts from kidnapping

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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New swine flu wave hits Mexico, closings unlikely

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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Survey: 75 pct of Mexicans unhappy with country

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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Mexican prosecutors probe possible Frida fakes

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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