Small-town mayor stoned to death in western Mexico

A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August...

25 slain in Mexican city; 85 escape border prison

Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two years...

AZ gov: Most illegal immigrants smuggling drugs

Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday that most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are being used to transport drugs..

Mexico teen killed by US Border Patrol

U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers near downtown El Paso, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

We want to stop the drugs coming north...

"They want to clearly stop the guns from the United States going south. We want to stop the drugs coming north..."

News bulletins are saturated with episode after grisly episode - torture and beheadings chief among them. This, after all, is lucrative business: the US government estimates that Mexican drug traffickers make profits of between $25bn and $40bn a year...

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Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Drug Gangs Have Mexico on the Ropes

According to Mexico's attorney general, 6,616 people died in drug-trafficking violence in Mexico last year. A high percentage of those killed were themselves criminals, but many law enforcement agents battling organized crime were also murdered. The carnage continues. For the first 22 days of this year the body count is 354…..

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Source: wallstreet journal