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In the NewsMexican Drug Violence Leaves 18 Dead
RTTNews, 8/11/2009 10:39 PM ET Violence related to bloody feuds between rival drug cartels claimed the lives of 18 persons in Mexico even as President Barack Obama Monday reiterated U.S. support in helping Mexico fight the drug war, reports say. US, Mexico 'winning' border war on drugs: Napolitano
(AFP) — 1 day ago WASHINGTON — The United States and Mexico are "winning" an often brutal war against drug cartels that operate across the border separating the two countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday. A Test of Faith in Mexico's Drug War
Religion Endures an Inner, Outer Struggle
By Steve Fainaru and William Booth TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico — Father Miguel López drives the parish pickup truck across the muddy river that separates two warring drug cartels. He follows the winding road through the dark green foothills of the Sierra Madre until he comes to a rusting archway where traffickers hung the severed head of his friend. Mexican prisons seen as weak link in drug war
12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 MEXICO CITY — The surveillance cameras captured it all: guards looking on nonchalantly as 53 inmates — many of them associated with one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels — let themselves out of their cells and sped off in waiting vehicles. |