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Inside Mexico's drug war Mexico's ongoing drug war continues to claim lives and disrupt order in the country.
Feb. 14, 2012
Federal police present Jaime Herrera, alias "El Viejito," third from left, and Felipe Naranjo, using crutches, alleged members of the Pacific drug cartel, to the press in Mexico City. Herrera is considered to be one of the most important producers and distributors of synthetic drugs, according to authorities.
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Feb. 14, 2012
Suspects are escorted to a media presentation in Monterrey. Suspected members of the Zeta drug cartel were presented to the media on Tuesday after their arrest.
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Dec. 8, 2011
A Mexican soldier burns about 945 kilograms of marijuana in Acapulco, Guererro state.
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Nov. 16, 2011
Soldiers stand inside a major cross-border drug tunnel during a media presentation in Tijuana. Police discovered the tunnel, running to California from Mexico, and seized more than 17 tons of marijuana, U.S. and Mexican authorities said. The tunnel, measuring about 400 yards, links warehouses in an industrial park south of San Diego and the Mexican border city of Tijuana, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.
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Nov. 16, 2011
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to packages of marijuana found at a warehouse in Tijuana.
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Nov. 29, 2011
The corpse of a man with a notice attributing the crime to a drug cartel lies in front of the Christopher Columbus monument in Nuevo Laredo, northeastern Mexico, near the U.S. border. More than 41,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police to take on organized crime.
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Oct. 19, 2011
Mexican soldiers cut and burn opium poppies in remote mountains of Guerrero state in southwest Mexico. Mexico is now the second-leading heroin producer in the world, after Afghanistan.
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The Washington Post
March 4, 2010
A soldier cuts open an opium poppy capsule at a poppy field during eradication supervised by the Mexican army on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico. Such eradications have declined as Mexican security forces have been shifted to fighting drug cartels, allowing the acreage devoted to growing opium poppies and marijuana to soar.
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AP
Oct. 19, 2011
A mural at the entrance of the Mexican military museum that documents and commemorates the armed forces' fight against drug crops and drug traffickers. The soldiers are running through a field of opium poppies.
William Booth
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The Washington Post
Oct. 6, 2011
Thirty-two bodies were found in three homes in Mexico's eastern state of Veracruz, the navy said. More than 41,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police to take on organized crime.
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Oct. 7, 2011
Alleged gang members from Mata Zetas and New Generation are presented to the press by the marines in Mexico City. New Generation, a relatively new gang, was accused by authorities of killing at least 67 people whose bodies were recently found in Veracruz.
Eduardo Verdugo
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AP
Oct. 5, 2011
Martin Rosales Magana, a.k.a. El Terry, an alleged leader of the Mexican La Familia drug cartel, is escorted by police officers during his presentation to the media in Mexico City. La Familia has been almost completely broken up, according to Mexico's federal police commissioner.
Leonardo Casas
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AP
Oct. 4, 2007
Noel Salgueiro Nevarez, center, a.k.a. El Flaco Salgueiro, is alleged to be responsible for the Sinaloa group's drug operations and violence in Chihuahua.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Jose Loera, a.k.a. El Voltaje, is escorted by federal police during his presentation to the press in Mexico City. Police arrested Loera and two alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel in connection with the Aug. 25 arson attack at a Monterrey casino that killed 52 people.
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Sept. 30, 2011
A man's body lies on a bed after he was killed by unknown gunmen who stormed a drug rehabilitation center in the resort city of Acapulco.
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AP
Sept. 22, 2011
Violence has escalated in Acapulco as rival drug gangs battle for control of the region, evidenced by attacks such as the killing of a pirated DVD vendor at the city's central market.
Bernandino Hernandez
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AP
Sept. 16, 2011
Family members of people embrace during the Caravan for Peace With Justice and Dignity, led by Javier Sicilia in Oventic, in Mexico's Chiapas state. Sicilia, whose son was killed by gunmen, organized the caravan through cities and states affected by drug-related violence in southern Mexico.
Eduardo Verdugo
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AP
Sept. 12, 2011
A gold-plated pistol and jewelry, allegedly seized from Manuel Alquisires Garcia, a.k.a. El Meme, sit on display during his presentation to the press in Mexico City. According to the navy, Alquisires Garcia escaped from prison in 2002, was detained in possession of several weapons on Sept. 10 and is accused of belonging to the Gulf drug cartel.
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AP
Aug. 28, 2011
A girl walks near graffiti and photographs of victims of Mexican drug violence and an arson incident during a protest in Guadalajara.
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Aug. 28, 2011
A federal police officer waves in Monterrey. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon sent 1,500 federal police to reinforce security in the city after armed men torched the Casino Royale on Aug. 26.
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Aug. 27, 2011
A relative of Rosa Maria Gonzalez, who was killed in an Aug. 26 fire, holds a flower outside the Casino Royale in Monterrey. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning after armed men torched the Casino Royale in in northern Mexico, killing at least 52 people.
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Aug. 26, 2011
Burnt furniture is seen inside the Casino Royale after it was torched by armed men Aug. 26, 2011, in Monterrey.
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Aug. 26, 2011
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement discovered Thursday an incomplete pipeline-style smuggling tunnel that originated beneath the floor of a vacant supermarket in Calexico, Calif.
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Aug. 16, 2011
The bodies of two men shot dead next to the Caleta beach, one of them covered, lie in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. The city of Acapulco has been hit by violence as drug gangs continue to battle for control of the region.
Bernandino Hernandez
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June 20, 2011
Police from the Federal Public Ministry looks at drums of precursor chemicals for methamphetamine that were seized in Queretaro, Mexico. Mexican authorities have made two major busts in as many months in the quiet central state of Queretaro. In one case, they seized nearly 500 tons of precursor chemicals. Another netted 3.4 tons of pure meth with a street value of more than $100 million.
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Dec. 2, 2008
Mexican Army Lt. Col. Julian Leyzaola, looks on after being sworn in as the new Public Safety Secretary in Tijuana. Leyzaola was dismissed Nov. 26, 2010, after showing unprecedented zeal trying to end the grip of drug cartels on one of Mexico's most notoriously corrupt police forces.
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AP
June 25, 2011
Director of Public Security Lieutenant Colonel Julian Leyzaola Perez reacts while standing at a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez. Hitmen drove by and shot at two traffic police as they were fining a driver. One of the police officers died at the spot, the other one shortly afterwards at the hospital, according to local media.
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REUTERS
Nov. 4, 2010
At the port in Veracruz, where more than 1,700 ships arrive each year, Mexican marines and customs agents work side by side searching for contraband.
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The Washington Post
Nov. 4, 2010
In April, Mexican marines in Veracruz found four tons of ephedrine in jute bags that came from India by way of Europe. Here in the palm of a Mexican marine at the port is the test kits used to test for ephedrine and cocaine.
William Booth
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The Washington Post
Nov. 4, 2010
Apatzingan, in the western state of Michoacan, is where the military finds the most clandestine methamphetamine labs. 30 men live together in a half-way house there. Most of the recovering addicts used methamphetamine. One of the young addicts makes furniture to sell to support the group.
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The Washington Post
Nov. 4, 2010
Mexican marines and customs agents work side by side at the port in Veracruz.
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The Washington Post
Nov. 4, 2010
More than 1,700 ships arrive each year at the port, disgorging 720,000 containers on the docks.
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The Washington Post
Oct. 20, 2010
Soldiers in Tijuana, Mexico, prepare to incinerate 134 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana seized in several trucks.
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AP
Oct. 18, 2010
Packages of seized marijuana are displayed during a presentation for the media in Tijuana, Mexico. On a conjoined operation with the army, local and state police seized 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana in an October bust, by far the biggest in the country in recent years.
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AP
Oct. 6, 2010
Policemen stand guard as forensic personnel collect evidence at a crime scene where a woman was killed during a shooting in downtown Monterrey. Once an oasis of calm, Mexico's richest city has become a central battleground in the country's increasingly bloody drug war as cartels open fire on city streets and throw grenades onto busy highways.
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Oct. 8, 2010
Residents gather at a crime scene where a young man was killed in a drive-by shooting in the suburb of San Nicolas, neighbouring Monterrey.
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Oct. 6, 2010
A forensic investigator approaches a blood-stained and bullet-ridden car where the bodies of two men lie inside in downtown Monterrey.
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AP
Oct. 5, 2010
Neighbors walk next to officers from Mexico's Federal Investigation Agency, AFI. Mexico's drug war has claimed an unprecedented 28,000 lives nationwide since President Felipe Calderon intensified the crackdown on the cartels, deploying thousands of soldiers and federal police across the country in December 2006.
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AP
Oct. 5, 2010
Federal police officers stand outside a house where two people were killed and a third one was kidnapped after unknown gunmen entered the house and opened fire in Ciudad Juarez.
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AP
Sept. 21, 2010
A soldier walks through marijuana plants in an illegal plantation at the Sierra de Juarez, in Tecate, northern Mexico. Authorities found three illegal plantations of marijuana on Sept. 20 during air patrol operations.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 15, 2010
A police officer runs after an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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June 11, 2010
A policeman cordons off a crime scene where gunmen tried to kidnap a government official outside the Topo Chico prison, in a gruesome war between Mexico's powerful Gulf cartel and its former armed wing, the Zetas, in Monterrey. A small group of elite army deserters originally hired as hitmen for a top drug cartel have morphed into one of the biggest crime organizations in Mexico.
Tomas Bravo
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Reuters
June 7, 2010
Alleged members of a drug cartel stand handcuffed as they are presented to the press in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Associated Press
May 23, 2010
AK-47 ammunition sits on a table in front of 18 alleged members of the drug cartel El Milenio during a presentation to the press in Guadalajara, Mexico. Police seized guns, drugs and arrested 18 people using army clothes after a 10-hour shoot-out on a mountainous area some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Jalisco state capital.
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Associated Press
May 14, 2010
Soldiers stand on piles of drugs before the drugs were incinerated at a military base in Ciudad Juarez. According to local media, soldiers burned more than 2,000 kg (4,409 lbs) of marijuana and 152 kg of cocaine along with other drugs seized during different military and police operations.
Alejandro Bringas
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Reuters
July 26, 2009
Mexican army soldiers take away laboratory equipment used to produce large quantities of synthetic drugs at a clandestine drug laboratory. The laboratory is allegedly run by Mexico's powerful La Familia drug cartel, near the town of Charo, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.
Carlos Jasso
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Associated Press
May 20, 2009
Soldiers stand in front of a burning pile of seized drugs in Tijuana. The Mexican Army and Federal forces destroyed some 3.7 tons of drugs, including cocaine, marijuana, heroin and crystal meth, recently seized during anti-narcotics operations.
Guillermo Arias
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AP
April 24, 2009
Seized weapons sit on racks in a warehouse at the Secretary of the Defense headquarters in Mexico City.
Eduardo Verdugo
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AP
April 11, 2009
Federal police officers stand guard as residents, top, watch the site where two Tijuana's police officers were shot and injured in Tijuana.
Guillermo Arias
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AP
Dec. 19, 2006
Mexican army soldiers get off an army helicopter as they arrive to destroy a marijuana field near the town of Aguililla, in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions have found widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill.
Mark Stevenson
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AP
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