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World News tagged with drugs

'Family Values' of Mexico Drug Gang
World  (tags: Mexico, drugs, gangs, drug cartels, violence, corruption, crime, death )

Dee
- 20 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
They decapitate, torture, and extort. Then they pray, and donate to charity. The "Familia" cartel is perhaps the most extreme example of the paradoxical enemy which Mexico faces as it tries to defeat organised crime.
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Mexican Smugglers Use Pacific as New Route
World  (tags: Mexico, Mexican smuggling, drugs, llegal immigrants, crime, corruption )

Dee
- 53 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- Mexican smugglers trying to find new routes into the United States are turning increasingly to the Pacific Ocean for a short sail to the California coast, where they drop off illegal immigrants and marijuana, U.S. officials sa
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Mexico Police Arrest 5 in Drug Rehab Executions
World  (tags: government, Mexico, drugs, crime, violence, murder, death, conflict )

Dee
- 56 days ago - news.yahoo.com
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.
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Venezuela to Buy Russian Short-Range Missiles
World  (tags: russia, moscow, venezuela, HugoChavez, conflict, crisis, missiles, world, news, humans, politics, government, u.s., America, colombia, SouthAmerica, americas, war, drugs, weapons, military, cold-war, violence )

SirRobert
- 70 days ago - independent.co.uk
Since the U.S. stopped all weapons sales to Venezuela (Hugo Chavez) in 2006, the Russians have filled this void with a series of arms deals with Chavez. Is Russia reverting to Cold War 'create a crisis' tactics? Moscow will sell Chavez anything he desires
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Los Zetas Called Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
World  (tags: government, US, Mexico, drug cartels, crime, corruption, violence, death, drugs, weapons, murder, violence )

Dee
- 106 days ago - cnn.com
VERACRUZ, Mexico (CNN) -- The dead always tell a story. And in Mexico that story is the fight for the right to meet U.S. demand for illegal drugs -- a war becoming more violent and ruthless, mostly because of one group.
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Police Say Local Drug Busts Targeted Mafia-Style Ring Based in Mexico
World  (tags: government, Narcotic Task Force, (ICE) agents, drugs in Mexico, crime, violence, drugs, weapons, GoodNews )

Dee
- 112 days ago - tdn.com
Agents from 13 area police agencies arrested nine local men Thursday as a result of a six-month investigation into a Mexico-based cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking group that a top drug enforcement official Friday likened to a Mafia-style--
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Alarm Over Somalia's Child Soldiers
World  (tags: government, Somalia, war, children soldiers, violence, drugs, human rights, children, conflict, corruption, freedoms, UnitedNations, death )

Dee
- 115 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
For years warlords have conscripted children to fight in bitter conflicts over money, power and land. The BBC Somali service's Mohamed Mohamed reveals widespread alarm that the practice is now becoming entrenched in Somalia.
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Mexican Drug Cartel Suspect Opens Up About Operations
World  (tags: Government, Mexico City, drug cartels, criminals, violence, crime, conflict, corruption, drugs, murder, death )

Dee
- 120 days ago - cnn.com
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Suspected drug cartel leaders in Mexico don't often answer reporters' questions, although one did call a radio station a few days ago to offer the government a deal.
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Drug Dealing for Jesus: Mexico's Evangelical Narcos
World  (tags: world, Mexico, drugs, gangs, thugs, crime, death, corruption, quasi-religious drug cartel, conflict, violence, federal police )

Dee
- 125 days ago - time.com
The work of La Familia? An officer watches over the body of one of the three policemen who were killed during an attack against the Federal Police barracks in Zitacuaro, Mexico.
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2 Mexican Politicians Sought; Drug Cartel Link Alleged
World  (tags: Mexico, government, politics, corruption, conflict, crime, drugs, Cartels, murder, deaths, cover-up, being sought, Wanted )

Dee
- 127 days ago - cnn.com
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities were searching Wednesday for two politicians accused of belonging to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which is blamed for killing more than 30 federal police officers in a series of attacks since Sat..
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Dumped Bodies Were Mexico Police
World  (tags: Mexico, government, police, Drugs, Drug gangs, corruption, crime, murder death, violence )

Dee
- 128 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The killing of the officers capped a bloody few days in Michoacan. Twelve people tortured, murdered and dumped alongside a mountain road in Mexico's Michoacan state were federal police officers, officials say.
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Mexican Police, Soliders Killed in Multi-City Attacks By Drug Gangs
World  (tags: government, Mexico, Drugs, drug gangs, Police, crime, death, murder, conflict, corruption, violence )

Dee
- 132 days ago - cnn.com
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Coordinated attacks in at least seven Mexican cities killed three federal police officers and two soldiers Saturday in what officials are calling an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs.
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Police Identify 7 Slain Women Found in February
World  (tags: government, New Mexico, police, crime, death, murder, drugs, prostitution, women, sadness )

Dee
- 134 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- New Mexico authorities have identified seven of 11 slain women whose remains were discovered several months ago in shallow graves in west Albuquerque, but have yet to identify a suspect in their killings, police told CNN on Thursday.
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Mexican Police Find 4 Mutilated Bodies in Bags
World  (tags: Mexico, government, crime, death, drugs, violence, murder )

Dee
- 134 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MORELIA, Mexico - Police in western Mexico have found four hacked-up bodies in plastic bags on the side of a highway.
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Crime Lords 'Ruining West Africa'
World  (tags: West Africa, senior officials, government, corruption, conflict, drugs, guns, oil, diamonds, crime, cover-up, dishonesty )

Dee
- 135 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The United Nations says organised crime is "plundering" West Africa, as illicit goods flood through the region.
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