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Are Narcocorrido Mexican Drug Ballads Really That Bad?
Narcocorridos sound like a cross between mariachi and polka, but the singers carry AK-47s and bazookas and brazenly glorify violence. Are these Mexican drug ballads really that bad?
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Internet posts provide incriminating look at lives of Mexicos narco families
The sons and daughters of Mexico’s most renowned outlaws just can’t refrain from posting photos of their lavish lifestyles online: Fat bundles of cash. Gold-plated assault rifles. Pet lions and tigers. Tricked-out dune buggies.
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How the US gave guns to Mexican cartels
In September 2009, John Dodson, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was assigned to the ATF’s Phoenix office. What he found there shocked him. The bureau was encouraging gun dealers to sell weapons in bulk to known straw buyers, who would funnel those guns to Mexican drug cartels.
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The Crowds Swell on Mexico’s Pacific Coast
Mexico’s Puerto Escondido used to be a quiet fishing village known only to surfers for its legendary waves, but now a more cosmopolitan crowd is beginning to discover this unspoiled stretch of perfectly pristine beach.
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Life On The Wrong Side Of The Border For Repatriated Mexicans
For Mexicans in the U.S. sent “home” thanks to increased enforcement of American immigration laws, the country they’re returning to is far more dangerous than the one they initially escaped. They wind up in border towns like Tijuana, Nogales, and Juárez, separated from their families, with no money, no identity, and nowhere to go.
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Nearly 50,000 migrants have died in Mexico on the way to the US since 2007
The road to the US can be a dangerous one—especially when that road runs through Mexico. More than 47,000 migrants (link in Spanish) have died while attempting to cross through Mexico to the US over the past six years, according to estimates by the Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI) in Mexico. The study, which was reportedly conducted by a team of visiting Argentine forensic anthropologists, also found that another nearly 9,000 migrants have been killed, but have yet to be identified.
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America's 15 best Tex-Mex chain restaurants
We rounded up a list of 50 top Tex-Mex chain restaurants around the country and asked you to determine which one is the best based on several criteria: the variety of menu options offered, the best rice and beans, the use of fresh ingredients, the most authentic/unique dishes, the best chips, salsa, and guacamole, and the most flavorful cuisine overall. Now, we have narrowed it down to the top 15 based on your votes.
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Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel
Hundreds of armed vigilantes stormed a Mexican town and arrested federal police in the latest bloody battle between residents, criminal gangs, and the police locals say are in league with the gang members. Around 600 members of local 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, stormed Paracuaro in the troubled Michoacan state yesterday in an attempt to seize control of the town back from the feared Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.
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The Mexican Drug Cartel's Underground Marijuana Tunnel
The Feds can't see them. Or hear the digging. They don't know how many there are or where they are headed. They know only that the tunnels are coming. And when they cross our border, when the soil gives way and the drugs start flowing, it's already too late. Jason Kersten uncovers a battleground hidden beneath our feet
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CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Court documents detail arrangement between the U.S. government and the Sinaloa cartel.
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Army Opened Fire on Unarmed Civilians, Shoot 11 Killing 4 Including 11 Y/O Girl
Estanislao Beltran, spokesman of the General Council and Community Self-Defense Forces of Michoacán, said the army opened fire on civilians, killing four people including a girl of eleven years. According to Beltran, members of the Army gunned at least eleven people in the community Antunez in the municipality of Parácuaro.
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How Mexico drug tunnels are built - and a closer look at the new robots that will patrol them
As border security has tightened, drug cartels have turned to tunneling beneath the ground to avoid detection. Nearly 170 tunnels have been found nationwide since 1990, most along the Arizona and California border with Mexico. The job of searching these networks can be dangerous, so the U.S. Border Patrol is unveiling its latest technology in the underground war — a wireless, camera-equipped robot that can do the job in a fraction of the time.
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"Haunted" Maya Underwater Cave Holds Human Bones
Underwater archaeologists have found human bones at the bottom of a Maya cenote in Mexico.
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A Mexican drug cartel's rise to dominance
The Sinaloa cartel is now the world's biggest supplier of illegal narcotics. How did it become so powerful?
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Mexico Just Legalized Vigilantism And Then Captured A Huge Cartel Leader
Mexico essentially legalized the country's growing "self-defense" groups Monday, while also announcing that security forces had captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which the vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.
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Mexico launches anti-kidnapping squad after abductions soar
Mexico's government on Tuesday created an anti-kidnapping agency after abductions soared 20 percent last year despite President Enrique Pena Nieto's vow to reduce the crime. The new department will answer to the country's interior ministry, where Pena Nieto has centered his anti-crime programs after his predecessor relied on police and the military.
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Mexico's Haunted Island Of The Dolls Is Actually Terrifying
Just to the south of Mexico City is a rural area named Xochimilco (so-chee-meel-koh) which translates into ‘a place of flowers’ – it paints of picturesque scene of calm and serenity doesn't it? But...
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'I wanted to kill myself', Mexico mystery castaway reveals
A castaway who spent more than a year at sea before landing on a remote Pacific island has recounted his “incredible” voyage as he drifted for thousands of miles surviving on turtles, birds and hand-caught sharks. Appearing bewildered after being told that he was in the Marshall Islands - a country he had never heard of - Jose Salvador Alvarenga, 37, a fisherman who set off from Mexico in December 2012, said his first words on spotting land were: “Oh, God”.
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Mexico’s Vigilantes on the March
In the past, Mexico’s revolutions and internal wars have all been eruptions stemming from deep social problems. They unleashed enormous destructive power and took decades to run their course. But they were always followed by long periods of peace and economic development.
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New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery
Research suggests that Mexico, rather than Europe, may be key to famously indecipherable botanical document.
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