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Last Update: Sat Jun 20 06:48:57 2009

- .Once hush-hush, drug war plays big in Mexico vote - When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared that his brother and cousin [...] you until death." The drug war is playing in Mexico elections like never before. Usually a taboo subject...

- Once hush-hush, drug war plays big in Mexico vote - MEXICO CITY — When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared [...] and we are with you until death." The drug war is playing in Mexico elections like never before. Usually...

- Mexico Drug Charges Against 7 Mayors, 20 Officials [Mexico-A Failed State?] - Mexico Drug Charges Against 7 Mayors, 20 Officials By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 19, 2009 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- [...] largest group of Mexican elected officials arrested on drug charges in recent memory. They and the other suspects...

- Former LDS temple president in Mexico kidnapped by masked-gunmen (Mitt Romney relative) - CHIHUAHUA, Mexico -- Multiple sources are reporting that a prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day [...] Romney's nephew, professional bull-rider Rocky McDonald was interviewed in an article posted on ESPN.com....

- Mexican police fleeing cartels find U.S. reluctant to grant asylum - Julio Ledezma had been chief of police in La Junta, a town of 8,700 in northern Mexico, for barely three months when a [...] the Juarez cartel. As drug violence has worsened in Mexico, businesspeople, journalists and other professionals have...

- Democrats face crucial immigration test [and looking to McCain to "lead" the way] - After twice postponing a highly anticipated meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders on [...] suffer the same fate as his predecessor, President George W. Bush, who left office acknowledging that failure to...

- [South Texas:]Weslaco man kidnapped from front yard - NEAR WESLACO — A 38-year-old man's location remains unknown after he was abducted by suspected [...] passenger hopped out, pointed a gun at Rodriguez and barked at him in Spanish to get inside the vehicle about 7...

- Gunmen kill priest, 2 seminarians in Mexico - Gunmen ordered a priest and two seminarians out of their vehicle and shot them dead in a drug-plagued region of western [...] Saturday. But Roman Catholic clergy in Mexico have complained that they are increasingly the targets of attacks and...

- Supreme Court Rejects Case to Stop U.S.-Mexico Border Fence - The high court announced Monday it is refusing to consider a challenge to the Homeland Security secretary's [...] it from 37 federal and local laws. A collection of environmental groups, the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian tribe...

- A Mexican Cartel's Swift and Grisly Climb - La Familia quickly set itself apart as a kind of criminal organization not seen before in Mexico. The cartel employed a [...] go to the government. You went to the narcos," he said. "They are a parallel structure,...

- Elaborate Tunnel Found on US Border (and it's not the border with Canada) - Authorities have found a massive underground drug smuggling tunnel snaking through the U.S.-Mexican border, and law [...] elegant in the sense it has electrical work wired into the Mexico side. It even has a hose for ventilation and...

- 83-foot tunnel dug under border at Nogales ( 16th since October ) - Another tunnel apparently dug by drug smugglers has been found beneath the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. Scioli ...

- "Last Chance" To Stop Border Wall[in South Texas] - MCALLEN - Valley officials are calling it their last chance to stop the border wall. South Texas mayors, county judges, [...] this week. The Department of Homeland Security has finished 630 out of the 670 miles of their border wall plan. Video

- Bills make immigration laws harder to ignore (efforts prohibit locals to prevent LEO enforcement) - PHOENIX — The state moved on two fronts Tuesday to prohibit politicians and appointed agency chiefs from [...] service or license where being a legal resident is a condition. And to make sure SB 1162 had some real teeth,...

- Too much Spanish [Laredo, Texas High School] - Martin High will focus on teaching English Painfully aware that Martin High School likely will fail federal standards [...] comprehension is not there." According to LISD, the federally mandated restructuring plan at Martin High...

- [Monterrey]City police aim guns at Mexican federal agents - MEXICO CITY — In a hair-raising standoff that sent motorists scrambling for cover, municipal police pulled [...] confrontation started when federal police showed up to disperse city officers who were protesting the...

- Chandler toddler on life support; man allegedly threw her - CHANDLER, AZ – A 21-year-old man is in custody for allegedly throwing his girlfriend's 2-year-old [...] and later airlifted to a trauma center, according to police. As of late Monday, she remained on life support...

- US Border czar warns cartels against targeting US forces - US border czar Alan Bersin warned Mexico's brutal drug cartels Tuesday that threats to target law enforcement [...] that would be considered a major departure from existing practice of the cartels, and a threat that called for...

- Be neighborly, go to Mexico - There are several good reasons Americans should help out the Mexican economy with a trip south of the ...

- 10 People Killed in SUV Rollover in Arizona - <p>SONOITA, Ariz. — Ten undocumented immigrants "stacked like wood" [...] lost control and rolled over on a remote southern Arizona highway, authorities said Sunday.</p>

- Parents rammed cars into burning day care - HERMOSILLO, Mexico (CNN) -- Parents of the children trapped in a burning Mexican day care center rammed their vehicles [...] CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reported from the scene. They say they could hear the cries of the children and...

- Shootout kills 16 in Mexico's Acapulco resort - A military official says 15 gunmen and a soldier were killed in a two-hour shootout in the heart of [...] found four Guerrero state police officers inside the house who said they were being held captive by the gunmen.

- Mexican drug cartels 'hide in plain sight' in U.S. - | Angel Haro-Perez certainly didn't look like a drug lord. Police and federal agents arrested him in December [...] see this guy on a street corner and you'd say, 'He could barely rub two nickels...

- 29 Children Killed in Fire at Day Care in Mexico - 29 Children Killed in Fire at Day Care in Mexico By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 6, 2009 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- [...] of Hermosillo, said Jose Larrinaga, a spokesman for Sonora state investigators. But Larrinaga added that the cause...

- 11 bodies found inside abandoned car in Mexico - MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police found 11 bodies - most with their hands and feet cut off - inside an abandoned car in the [...] Prosecutors did not reveal what the message said or the identities of the bodies. They said the killings are linked...

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