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"Mexican government sends 6,500 to state scarred by drug violence"
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Fox asked to abstain from U.N. vote, Legislators signed a letter imploring government to abstain from an Human Right's Commission vote on Cuba
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Student deaths classified as 'genocide' ,The 1971 shooting by government forces in 'dirty war' has been classified by an investigating prosecutor as genocide
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The country continued its fight against organized crime, which involved frequent clashes between security forces and drug traffickers.
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Report links ex-leaders to killings. A long-awaited report for the first time officially blames the highest levels of 3 presidencies for the massacres, tortures
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President Felipe Calderón assumes office and declares war on drug traffickers. He also imposes a cap on salaries of high-ranking public servants and orders a raise on the salaries of the Federal Police and the Mexican armed forces.
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Operation Michoacan is launched against the La Familia Michoacana cartel. A total of more than 60 Mexican soldiers and more than 100 police officers, and 500 cartel gunmen are killed in the operation.
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Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is extradited to the USA.
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Jorge Altriste, head of operations for Mexico's elite police force in Tijuana, is murdered.
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Popular singer Sergio Gómez is kidnapped and killed.
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12.7 million Mexican immigrants lived in the United States in 2008
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The United States announces it is implementing a drug trafficking law to impose financial sanctions on Mexican drug cartels.
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The Federal Police chief Víctor Gerardo Garay resigns amidst claims of corruption. He was arrested and charged on December 10 for protecting the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.
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Iran envoy: CIA involved in Neda shooting The country's ambassador to Mexico: The U.S. may have been behind the killing of the 26-year-old woman whose fatal shooting was videotaped
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Due to high crime rates in the municipality of Tancítaro, Michoacán, its Municipal Police force have been disbanded. City officials left the Army and State Police in charge of public security
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Chihuahua shootings: 40 people are killed and at least four others are wounded in an attack by at least 30 gunmen in Chihuahua. The attack occurred in multiples places in the city, including a rehabilitation center where 19 of the victims died
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2 people accused of posting false rumors on social media about school attack walked free after authorities dropped terrorism charges against them
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Mexico troops 'committing abuses' .Human Rights Watch: Mexico's security forces are committing widespread abuses in the fight against drug gangs but are not being held to account
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Mexican president torture probe urged.Mexican activists have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate President Calderon over the torture and killing of civilians in the war on drugs
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Mexican police tourtured five suspects. North Mexico: Mexican federal police in Ciudad Juarez tortured five people to force confessions that they killed an officer and participated in a car bomb attack
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"2 Texas missionaries murdered in north Mexico"
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Thirteen people were killed in a wave of drug violence that swept Mexico a day before the Pope's visit. Seven men were found shot on the side of the road in Angostura, Sinaloa at a spot where locals often purchased contraband gasoline from the cartels. Fo
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Ten people were reported killed in a shootout in Temosachi in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, where the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels have been fighting for control over drug smuggling routes into the U.S
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The decapitated and dismembered bodies of 49 people were found in Cadereyta Jiménez. The remains were left along the road in Nuevo León state, between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa. A message written on a wall nearby appeared to refer to Los Zetas d
