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09 December 2009 7:57 AM | Tagged: amnesty intl accuses mexican army abuses
MEXICO CITY - Amnesty International said that Mexican soldiers have carried out torture and forced disappearances while fighting drug cartels. The group said one case involves 25 Tijuana police officers detained on corruption allegations. The office

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09 December 2009 2:29 AM | Tagged: mexican football final bullfight share time
MEXICO CITY - Cheers of 'Ole Ole' are sure to be reverberating around thesouth side of Mexico City on Sunday.On one side of the street is Cruz Azul Stadium, where Mexico'sfirst-division title will be decided between Cruz Azul and Monterrey. On theo

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26 November 2009 8:17 AM | Tagged: mexican president poverty priority
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that the top priority in the second half of his term will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels took center stage in the first three years of his administration. Calder

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24 November 2009 7:57 AM | Tagged: us woman killed gunshot mexican border city
MEXICO CITY - A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Brian Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, said U.S. citizen

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24 November 2009 6:47 AM | Tagged: embattled mexican mayor family live us
MONTERREY, Mexico - The mayor of a wealthy suburb of this northern industrial city said Monday that he has sent his family to the United States for their own safety as he pursues his campaign against extortion and kidnapping gangs. Mayor Mauricio Fe

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23 November 2009 9:07 AM | Tagged: mexican data contradict us figures militarys human rights abuses
MEXICO CITY The Mexican military has convicted just one soldier of a serious human rights violation during a bloody, three-year campaign against drug traffickers, according to Interior Ministry figures that are significantly lower than those report

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20 November 2009 11:27 PM | Tagged: mexican reporter organized crime missing
MEXICO CITY - Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime. Michoacan state's attorney general says police are looking for people who had contact with Mexic

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14 November 2009 11:27 PM | Tagged: people killed day mexican border city
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval says the c