Gang dumps human heads in Mexican bar
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - An armed gang of suspected drug   traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the   dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an   apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
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A two-year-old program identifies transnational gang members in who have violated immigration law.
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Over the last decade gangs have spread across Central America, Mexico and the U.S., setting off a catastrophic crime wave.
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A violent Mexican drug gang took out a rare, half-page ad in newspapers in which they claimed to be anti-crime vigilantes who wanted to stop kidnapping, robbery and the sale of methamphetamine in the western state of Michoacan.
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The organization said that since a U.S. assault last month, sewage was flowing in the streets and hundreds of bodies apparently lay in a warehouse.
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Dozens of Mexican and Central Americans with ties to violent southern California street gangs have been arrested or indicted on drugs, weapons and immigration charges, immigration officials in Los Angeles said on Wednesday.
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In a horrifying show of brutality, gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico early Wednesday and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, after covering patrons with their weapons, officials said.
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The bodies of 12 men killed by hitmen believed linked to drug gangs were found Tuesday in the northern state of Sinaloa, in what appears to be one of the deadliest one-day tolls in violent drug battles in recent years.
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MEXICO CITY - Investigators have identified at least six people who were part of a mob that burned two policemen to death, the federal attorney general said Thursday.
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Cancun - The bodies of nine people, including three Mexican police, have been found in different parts of the Mexican resort city of Cancun, officials said on Thursday.
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GANG members at two Salvadoran prisons staged rebellions within minutes of each other today and are holding about 100 visitors and prison support staff hostage.
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Six guards were found murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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Violent gangs with roots in U.S.  crime culture are spreading through Mexico, with some setting  up shop in the capital, the government said on Thursday.
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Gang members at two prisons in El Salvador took some 100 visitors and prison staff hostage on Thursday, demanding direct negotiation with a top federal human rights ombudsman and an Archbishop, according to reports reaching in Mexico City from San Salvador
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At least 31 prisoners were killed and 23 wounded during clashes between warring gang members and other inmates in El Salvador&#39;s largest prison.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Imprisoned gang members enraged by a tough new anti-crime law rioted and seized about 100 hostages at two Salvadoran prisons Thursday.
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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.