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The cross-border bullet trade

Todd BensmanMarch 4, 2009 07:52Updated May 30, 2010 12:46

Meet the drug lords

Ioan GrilloApril 7, 2009 11:06Updated June 16, 2010 16:30

Who are Mexico's Knights Templar?

June 4, 2013 08:06
COALCOMAN, Mexico — A gang of self-dubbed knights claim they're on a crusade to protect the unprotected in Mexico's western state of Michoacan, but there's nothing cavalier about them.

Confronting Mexico's Knights Templar cartel

June 4, 2013 09:28
COALCOMAN — “The problem started when they began messing with the population: extortion, rapes, killings," this county's mayor, Rafael Garcia, says of the Knights Templar cartel. "We were terrified. We are still terrified.”

Mexico drug war, rebooted

May 23, 2013 16:00
MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto says he wants to soften Mexico's bloody, military-led offensive against its criminal lords with a brainier, more preventive strategy. Well, wish him luck with that. This week, he had to put boots on the ground again.

Mexico: Hope grows for the missing

March 5, 2013 07:01
SALTILLO, Mexico — Burly as a linebacker, Rogelio Elizondo remained dry-eyed as he described scouring websites devoted to Mexico's gangland savagery, hoping to somehow recognize his long-missing son amid photos of fresh victims or decayed remains pulled from clandestine graves.

Mexico's vigilantes

Keith DannemillerFebruary 11, 2013 12:54
AYUTLA DE LOS LIBRES, Mexico — Hundreds of masked men wielding old shotguns, rifles, revolvers and machetes have claimed to be the law in the rugged mountains outside the faded resort of Acapulco.

High-ranking cartel member speaks on Operation Fast and Furious

Michael Kelley, Business Insider August 10, 2012 16:55
A high-ranking member of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel operative in US custody alleges that Operation Fast and Furious was part of an agreement to finance and arm the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for information used to take down rival cartels, according to court documents. The statement was made by Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the Sinaloa cartel’s “logistics coordinator” in charge of arranging massive drug shipments from Latin America to the United States.
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