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Okies wakeup: Mexican cartels already in state
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| Okies wakeup: Mexican cartels already in state |
| Tulsa World | Apr 26, 2009 | By RON JACKSON NewsOK.com |
| Crossing a Mexican drug cartel usually comes with a price — death.
On the U.S.- Mexico border, that price is being paid daily with an endless stream of execution-style slayings in a war to control drug routes to the north. As Mexican officials crack down on these cartels, violence spreads. Lives are merely the cost of doing business, and since 2007 the international press has documented more than 7,400 drug war-related murders on the border. |
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With violence soaring, Mexico looks for help from its army
The recent violence in Mexico, much of it drug-[market]-related, is showing no signs of letting up. (Photo courtesy LA Times)
With violence soaring, Mexico looks for help from its army
By Sara Miller Llana | Christian Science Monitor MEXICO CITY — Even for Mexicans accustomed to ghastly headlines chronicling the country’s drug-related violence, the current level of killing in Tijuana causes consternation. Some 200 people have been slain in one month. Last weekend turned into one of the city’s deadliest: Nearly 40 were killed, four of whom were children, and nine of them beheaded.
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AFP Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks
The corpse of a Mexican policeman shot dead by assassins lies on the street in Rosarito, Baja California state, on October 16. Almost 400 people have died in the past two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related violence. © 2007 AFP Said Betanzos
AFP Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks
by Oscar Laski — Almost 400 people have died in the past two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related violence. The killings include six people lined up and shot against a wall with a written warning promising a similar fate to all ‘rats’, and five others shot dead in a house where a ganglord’s corpse was found in a freezer.
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