Drug violence threatens Mexico's tourism
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Brazen daylight killings by presumed drug smugglers just up the hill from Acapulco Bay are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody drug wars will cripple Mexico's critical tourism industry.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border is forcing migrants to take more dangerous, remote routes to cross into the United States and pushing up the number of deaths in the desert.
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Mexico announced plans on Thursday to broaden its fight against feuding drug gangs, saying it would dispatch soldiers to other areas after sending 7,000 troops and police to one violence-plagued state this week.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4 -- Drug cartels are trying to influence the outcomes of major elections in Mexico by kidnapping and threatening candidates, according to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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Powerful drug gangs still control parts of Mexico despite a wide-ranging crackdown involving thousands of federal troops, a top security official said Thursday.
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A Mexican newspaper shuts temporarily amid continuing attacks and threats from suspected  drugs gangs.
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Mexicoâs country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate, in a trend that has gone hand in hand with a surge in violence between drug gangs.
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MEXICALI, Mexico  - Mexican drug gangs are  peppering the U.S. border with small shipments of illegal  narcotics in a tactic known as "shotgunning" to beat increased  security, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - Sinaloa, the northern Mexican state that spawned the country's most fearsome drug cartel, hopes to lure tourists to rustic cabins in a rugged area infamous for opium fields and violent kingpins.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Mexican federal police will patrol the hotel zone of Acapulco day and night to prevent an outbreak of drug gang violence from affecting tourism, a senior police official said on Friday.
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NACO, Mexico -- The message came on police emergency radio: An army of drug traffickers with machine guns mounted on their pickup trucks was headed toward this town of 5,000 people on the Arizona-Mexico border.
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LAREDO, Texas  - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
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Mexico's new government, struggling with rampant drug trafficking and crime, ordered thousands of troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartels locked in a vicious turf war.
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Six men have been found murdered in  Mexico in two incidents that appear to reflect a recent surge  in violence between rival drug gangs.
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Even if the bloody feud between cartels stops, the police force is badly compromised and must be rebuilt