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Google tracking of Mexico drug cartel mayhem

Everyone from U.S. government spies to private companies to bloggers and reporters try to monitor and make sense of the drug-cartel mayhem in Mexico. Academics are also jumping in. As Joshua Keating...

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2012 a year of headless bodies, a dead beauty queen and a new president as...

From the deaths and arrests of several top drug cartel players to the shooting of a beauty queen; attack on two CIA contractors and the Texas Department of Public Safety opening fire from a borderland...

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Zetas cartel finally has a Colombia connection

If a four-ton load of cocaine (link in Spanish to Mexican newspaper) busted in Colombia was indeed headed for the Zetas cartel in Mexico,  the Zetas now not only have their own direct connection for...

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Mexico’s ‘Tweety Bird’ is singing in murder of U.S. federal agent

Mexican gangster known as "Tweety Bird," appears to be singing in slaying of U.S. agent killed in Mexico during a 2011 attack.

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Man heads to prison in cartel murder-for-hire plot that snared U.S. soldiers...

Another man heads to prison as part of a bizarre plot in which undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agents posted as Zetas cartel gangsters in need of a Texas hit squad

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No shackles on captured cartel leader? And who smacked around capo caught by...

The word slowly leaked out yesterday that Mexican marines in the border city of Nuevo Laredo  had captured Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, better known as Z-40, the head of the Zetas. He is not just any...

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Video: Former hit man describes learning from Mexico’s most sadistic narco

The Center for Investigative Reporting has shared video of Rosalio Reta a former hit man for the Zetas cartel who describes what it was like to meet and work for Miguel Trevino, considered to be the...

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Latest online butchery shows Mexico gangster war remains vicious as ever

Anyone who thinks Mexico’s narco violence  across the border from Texas has subsided in the past few months, has not checked in with Comandante Bebe. His horrific demise is shared with the world, blow...

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Stratfor: Mexico’s crime world splinters as drug lord’s fall

The administration of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is knocking down a steady stream of drug lords, causing Mexico’s crime world to splinter, notes Stratfor, the Austin-based global intelligence...

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The world gets a look at alleged Zetas leader in Mexico perp walk

The world got the first real look at Oscar Omar Trevino, alleged leader of the Zetas, during what amounts to being a perp walk in front of the media in Mexico City. Trevino, who is known as Z-42, was...

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