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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican lawyer said Monday he has resigned from handling the case of a woman and her sons who claim the males were sexually abused as boys by the founder of a conservative Roman Catholic religious order.

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MEXICO CITY — A Mexican woman charged Wednesday that the deceased, scandal-tainted founder of a conservative Roman Catholic religious order led a double life and fathered two children with her.

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's powerful cartels have taken to running drug rehabilitation centers, turning recovering addicts into hit men and smugglers and giving some an ultimatum: Work for us or we'll kill you.

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The Mexican military arrested 10 people associated with the Sinaloa drug cartel after three decapitated bodies were found near Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican military operations spokesman told CNN late Wednesday.

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For most of his 70 years, Hesiquio Trevizo has been a man of good will, preaching the word of God. These days, the Roman Catholic priest is a self-described capitan de la guerra -- a war veteran.

That he should feel so within the confines of the sanctuary tells all about the violence and pervasive fear that have gripped the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

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Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information.

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Mexican police have captured a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern border city of Tijuana.

In a fresh victory for Mexico's bloody war on drug gangs, Teodoro Garcia Simental was caught in southern Baja California early yesterday, police said.

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In interview with Channel 4 News, young woman says babies and young children are 'sold to order' to US nationals

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police found two severed heads and the bullet-ridden bodies of two women and a disabled man in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, the latest chapter in Mexico’s increasingly gory drug war.

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MEXICO CITY — Christian groups have said said they had asked Mexico's attorney general to overturn a newly-voted Mexico City law allowing gay marriage and the possibility of adoption, because it was "unconstitutional."

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PUEBLA, Mexico — Four Roman Catholic priests in central Mexico have resigned after they were caught breaking their celibacy vows, church officials said Wednesday.

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To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade

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Father Raymundo Figueroa is accused of selling sacraments to support his poor parish. His parishioners side with him, but the Roman Catholic hierarchy considers him a transgressor.

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.

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The first of many prayers offered was spoken through a megaphone as chilly, damp fog lingered in a dark sky – unusual for a tropical night in America's poorest neighbourhood.

But people had awoken and converged behind the Church of San Felipe de Jesús in Cameron Park on the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas, to prepare for the day of Our Lady the Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of Mexico, Empress of the Americas. All along the US-Mexico border, and across the whole of Mexico itself, tens of millions were doing the same.

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CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Eduardo Tostado was a prosperous man whose businesses and pleasures straddled the coastal border. He owned a big house and a used-car lot in the San Diego suburbs, and a seafood restaurant in Tijuana.

He was also part of the border underworld, the authorities say — a high-ranking member of the Mexican drug cartel driving much of the United States’ illegal marijuana trade and the cascade of violence in a 40-year drug war. Some evenings, Mr. Tostado drank tequila at the Baby Rock club in Tijuana or sipped Scotch at the Airport Lounge in San Diego. He socialized mainly with men he knew well and women he knew not at all.

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The sect is linked to narcotics trafficking in Mexico. As it moves north, it takes on the benign glow of virtue.

The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujos -- witch doctors -- in his family.

The name the worshipers invoked was not that of the Virgin Mary but of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death," a Mexican folk saint linked to narcotics trafficking, a kind of female grim reaper with a skull for a face.

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In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the Mexican Revolution—and part of the country is effectively under martial law. Is this evidence of a creeping coup by the military? A war between drug cartels? Between the president and his opposition? Or just collateral damage from the (U.S.-supported) war on drugs? Nobody knows: Mexico is where facts, like people, simply disappear. The stakes for the U.S. are high, especially as the prospect of a failed state on our southern border begins to seem all too real.

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Prosecutors in western Mexico say a 78-year-old man has been arrested and charged with homicide for allegedly killing a woman he claimed cast a spell on him.

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MEXICO CITY — Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional.

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MEXICO CITY — Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.

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Margarito Montes Parra, who had styled himself as a modern-day Zapata, made many enemies as he helped farmworkers in land disputes. His convoy was ambushed in Sonora.

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MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.

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ARCATA, Calif. - Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.

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CIUDAD JUAREZ — A new spate of violence has pushed the homicide rate in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez to an unprecedented 1,701 murders, breaking the record set just a year earlier in 2008.

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Almost all due to drug violence, in just one town. ABN

Federal investigators say he served as a secret ally of traffickers while he was posted in Guadalajara.

By Sebastian Rotella
September 17, 2009

Reporting from Washington - As a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, Richard Padilla Cramer held front-line posts in the war on Mexico's murderous cartels. He led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and was the attache for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara.

While in Mexico, however, Cramer also served as a secret ally of drug lords, according to federal investigators.

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Mexican authorities have arrested the secretary for public security of an eastern state on suspicion of co-operating with drug gangs.

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18 killed in Juarez clinic for addicts

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation center and shot 17 people dead in a northern Mexican border city, an official said.

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Wouldn't it be nice to pay an annual fee that gives you access to unlimited resources for your care and keeping? Resources like regular checkups (dental too), emergency surgeries, tests your doctor deems needed or important, free medicine and even eyeglasses. Who wouldn't like that?

However, there is no such thing in America today ... Which is why thousands of U.S. retirees are moving to Mexico.

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CIUDAD JUAREZ (MEXICO): Four men suspected of committing 211 murders in northern Mexico have been arrested, authorities said.

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