Former Costa Rican President: Stopping Drug Trade “Almost Impossible”
Former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says stopping drug trafficking in Mexico and other countries is "almost impossible."
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Prop 19 Would Help Defuse Mexico’s Drug War
Passage of California's Proposition 19, which aims to legalize recreational marijuana, could help ease the spiralling violence of Mexico's drug war.
20-year-old Woman Becomes Top Cop in Violent Mexican Municipality
Some headlines are hailing her as the bravest woman in Mexico. Marisol Valles Garcia, all of 20 years old, says she's just tired of everyone being afraid.
Mexico’s Plague of Police Corruption
Despite millions in U.S. aid, forces continue to be outgunned, overwhelmed — and often purchased outright — by gangsters.
Drug War Horrors Continue
The terrible story of David Hartley, an American man shot in the head by Mexican drug cartel members while riding Jet Skis with his wife, is getting worse.
U.S. Officials Confirm Drug Cartels Thwarted Jet Skier Search
A Texas border sheriff on Thursday said he was calling directly on Zeta operatives to simply produce the body of a missing U.S. citizen believed shot and killed last week by drug gangs on Falcon Lake reservoir.
Mexico: US Wavers in Drug War With California Pot Vote
President Felipe Calderon said Thursday that a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana represents hypocrisy in U.S. drug policy for encouraging consumption while at the same time demanding that Mexico and other countries crack down on drug trafficking.
Juarez’s Children: Drugs, Death, and Fear
Over the past two and a half years, more than 5,000 people (an average of more than five a day) have been killed in an intensifying drug war that has reached deep into children's lives.
Mexican Drug War Crimes Go Live on the Internet
In the midst of the brutal drug trafficking war encroaching on their lives, thousands of Mexicans every morning check social network websites to see if they will encounter any unpleasant surprises on the way to work or school.
Mexico Gov’t Rejects Call for Truce in Drug War
Mexico's government has scoffed at the idea of a truce in the country's raging drug war as a Ciudad Juarez newspaper pleaded with drug cartels after one of its photographers was slain.
