Mexican Army Seizes $4 Billion Worth of Methamphetamine

Mexican troops seized 15 tons of methamphetamine in a western state of Mexico, the Associated Press reported Thursday, which if sold in the U.S. would be worth $4 billion.

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The Zetas Cartel's Radio Network Sounds Horrifying

The Mexican military has been trying and failing for months to bring down a jerry-rigged radio system that the brutal Zetas cartel uses to run both its drug business and its related killing sprees.

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Mexico's Top Defender Against Drug Cartels Dies in a Helicopter Crash

There are no survivors after a helicopter carrying seven Mexican officials and a pilot crashed into a hillside just south of the country's capital.

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A Mexican Drug Cartel Killed Another Blogger

Authorities found the mutilated body of yet another blogger, the fourth in the past three months, who was executed by the drug cartels in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo.

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Even Anonymous Is Scared of Mexico's Drug Cartels

The hacktivist collective Anonymous is backing down from its threats to target the notoriously violent Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas.

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Mexican Drug Cartels Crack Down on Social Media, Gruesomely

Bodies found tortured with a warning against "funny things on the internet"

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More Journalists Killed in Mexico Than Afghanistan

By one count, at least 42 journalists have been murdered there in the past half decade

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Drug Kingpin Captured In Mexico

Admitted to organizing over 1,500 killings to Mexican police.

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Teenager Gets Three Years in Jail for Four Beheadings

A Mexican judge gave the young U.S. citizen the maximum sentence

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Are We Sure This Is Mexico's Largest Marijuana Farm?

The military has discovered a 300-acre plantation in Baja California

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Five Best Thursday Columns

On increasing drug violence, millionaires on food stamps, and exiting Afghanistan

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Mexico's Tales of Bus Passengers Forced to Fight to the Death

Violence in the Mexican drug wars is said to have reached new extremes

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Mexican Violence Fueled by American Guns

A new Senate report claims that 70 percent of guns used in Mexico come from the U.S.

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Five Best Monday Columns

On fixing Mexico's judicial system, keeping troops in Iraq, and focus in Afghanistan

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Obama-Calderon Meet Against Backdrop Of Tension

A look at the issues dividing the two countries and some potential solutions.

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Who Is Alleged Drug Lord 'La Barbie'?

Reporters home in on the arrest of Texas-born Edgar Valdez-Villareal

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The Source of Mexico's Drug Violence

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Mexican Drug War Ensnares U.S.

Two Americans, one pregnant, are killed in Juarez

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The World's 'Murder Capital' Hopes for Rebirth

War-torn Ciudad Juarez yearns for the return of 100,000 self-exiled residents, and a resurrection

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Is Mexico's Drug War Worse Than We Realize?

The unprecedented violence suggests the government is battling more than mere drug cartels

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