Posts Tagged ‘Mexico’

July 30 2010

Troops kill senior ‘capo’ of mighty Mexico cartel

The FBI offered a $5 million reward for Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, 56.Soldiers have killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since  a military offensive against organized crime began in 2006.






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July 27 2010

4 journalists reported missing in northern Mexico

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission called on the government Tuesday to find four Mexican journalists reported missing in or near the violence-wracked northern state of Durango.

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July 27 2010

In Mexico, justice means catch and release

Soldiers escort Oswaldo Munos Gonzalez, a k a "El Gonzo," during a presentation to the press in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 2009. Security forces said they found a bag full of drugs and guns when he was detained and he later admitted to killing 40 people. Still, he is yet to be charged as of July 2010.It’s practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war. Once the television lights dim, however, about three-quarters of them are let go.


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July 24 2010

51 bodies found at northern Mexico dumping ground

The site where investigators found some 51 corpses in two days of digging is seen in a field near a trash dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico Friday, July 23, 2010. Excavations continue at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico's bloody drug war. (AP Photo/Iram Oviedo)Investigators said Saturday they have found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a trash dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, as excavations continued at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico’s bloody drug war.






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July 24 2010

Mexico: Ancient woman suggests diverse migration

A scientific reconstruction of an ancient woman known as La Mujer de las Palmas, based on the skeletal remains of a female who lived between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago in Tulum, Mexico. Experts reconstructed what the woman may have looked like based on the remains found in 2002 in a sinkhole cave near the Caribbean resort of Tulum, Mexico. Anthropologist Alejandro Terrazas says the reconstruction resembles people from southeastern Asia areas like Indonesia, even though experts had long believed the first people to migrate to the Americas where from northeast Asia.A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought, researchers say.


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July 24 2010

38 bodies found at northern Mexico dumping ground

Authorities found the remains of at least 38 people in a series of pits and scattered on the ground at a suspected drug-gang dumping site near the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico, an official said Friday.

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July 23 2010

18 bodies found at northern Mexico dumping ground

Authorities found the remains of at least 18 people in a series of pits and scattered on the ground at a suspected drug-gang dumping site near the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico, an official said Friday.

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July 18 2010

Suspected drug hitmen kill 17 at party in Mexico

Suspected drug hitmen stormed a private party and killed 17 people including five women in the northern Mexican city of Torreon Sunday, one of the deadliest attacks in Mexico’s war on traffickers, police said.

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July 16 2010

12 killed in shootout in Mexico border city

The remains of a vehicle are cordoned off in a street in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday July 16, 2010. Mexican investigators ran forensic tests to determine whether drug gangs used a car bomb in an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers and wounded nine people on Thursday.  A car bomb would mark an unprecedented escalation of Mexico's drug war and confirm long-standing fears that the cartels are turning to explosives in their fight against security forces. (AP Photo)A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.


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July 15 2010

3 killed in drug gang attack on police in Mexico

Members of a northern Mexico drug gang rammed a car into two police patrol vehicles Thursday in retaliation for the arrest of a top gang leader, killing two officers and an emergency medical technician.

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