Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent

Journalists know drug traffickers can easily kidnap or kill them — and get away with it.

Cocaine seized in dead sharks

DRUG smugglers stashed more than a tonne of cocaine in the carcasses of frozen sharks.

Mexican naval officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than 20 sharks aboard a freight ship.

7 police officers assassinated in Tijuana; 3 others wounded

Seven police officers were assassinated in about an hour's time in what authorities said Tuesday was a coordinated effort that followed months of relative calm in a border city stricken by drug-fueled violence. Three officers were injured...

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ALABAMA APARTMENT: 5 Dead Men. Bound, Gagged, Throats Cut. Mexican Cartels Come to America.. WARNING GRAPHIC..

The five dead men lay scattered about the living room of one apartment in a complex of hundreds.

Some of the men showed signs of torture: Burns seared into their earlobes revealed where modified jumper cables had been clamped as an improvised electrocution device. Adhesive from duct tape used to bind the victims still clung to wrists and faces, from mouths to noses.

As a final touch, throats were slashed open, post-mortem..

WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS. THINK TWICE: The Drug Murders in Mexico, now Coming to the U.S.


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Witnesses urge U.S. not to send troops to the border in response to Mexico’s drug war

At Monday's hearing, Sen. John F. Kerry, the committee chairman, said he was shocked that there were killings and beheadings "just a stone's throw across the Rio Grande from where we're sitting this morning."




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Five severed heads found inside ice coolers by the side of a road in Mexico..

The heads were found with messages addressed to rivals of the killers, who were assumed to be involved in Mexico's bitter and violent drug war.

Jalisco is close to Sinaloa state, scene of many high-profile killings and home to the powerful Sinaloa cartel...

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"Next door in the other room is the torture/rape room...”

Illegal immigration and drug smuggling have always been issues in this border state, but warring Mexican cartels are carrying violence to levels that have shocked law enforcement and government officials…

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Drug Wars: 1,000 people killed in 8 weeks

Mexico is experiencing a wave of violence tied to drug gangs, especially in border states and other areas known as hotbeds of narcotrafficking.

The government says more than 1,000 people were killed during the first eight weeks of the year...

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New police chief's head left in ice bucket at station

The head of a new local police commander was left in an ice bucket at his police station in the Ciudad Juarez area, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.

El Universal reported that Martin Castro Martinez was one of 15 people killed execution-style in 24 hours...

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