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Monday, October 6, 2008

A Tijuana blood bath

World | By Richard Marosi | 12:00AM, October 6
The birthplace of one of Mexico’s most infamous drug cartels looks more and more like its graveyard. Read more
 

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Nine more bodies found in Tijuana

World | October 5, 2008
Police said Saturday that they had found nine more bodies dumped in this border city, where 49 people were killed last week in violence related to the drug trade. Read more
 

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Calderon in a corner on drug battle

World | By Ken Ellingwood | October 1, 2008
Stretched thin in an uphill battle against drug gangs, the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces increasingly stark options at a pivotal moment. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Violence strikes close to home

World | By Richard Marosi | September 30, 2008
Leonor Merino said she was shocked enough Monday to find that what she thought was a pile of rags was a dozen bodies. Read more
 

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Suspect tells of holding a grenade

World | By Tracy Wilkinson | September 28, 2008
Slumped at an interrogation table, a gang member accused of participating in an attack that killed eight people at an Independence Day celebration described calmly how he was eager to get rid of the grenade he tossed into a crowded plaza. Read more
 

Thursday, September 25, 2008

A ‘time bomb’ in Darfur

World | By Edmund S and Ers | September 25, 2008
This overcrowded Darfur displacement camp is preparing for battle. Read more
 

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Young Bolivians fuel mob violence in civil conflict

World | By Patrick J. Mcdonnell | September 20, 2008
His mother pleaded: Don’t go to the road blockade. Read more
 

Thursday, September 18, 2008

A new kind of victim

World | By Ken Ellingwood | September 18, 2008
Gloria Alvarez never got to shout “Viva Mexico!” Read more
 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Mugabe can’t be held liable, Tsvangirai says

World | By Robyn Dixon | September 17, 2008
Zimbabwe’s new prime minister said President Robert Mugabe could not be held accountable for the political violence during his 28-year rule but that others might face prosecution in the future. Read more
 

Monday, September 15, 2008

Death toll rises in Bolivian violence

World | By Patrick J. Mcdonnell | September 15, 2008
The death toll in last week’s violence in a remote northern province rose to more than two dozen, the government said Sunday, as it held frantic talks with opponents to avert further bloodshed. Read more
 

Sunday, September 14, 2008

24 bodies found near Mexico City

World | By Tracy Wilkinson | September 14, 2008
Gagged and bound, the bodies were dumped on a grassy roadside littered with trash. Read more
 

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Bolivia imposes martial law on eastern province

World | By Patrick J. Mcdonnell | September 13, 2008
Bolivia declared martial law Friday in the isolated northern state of Pando, site of violent clashes a day earlier that left at least nine dead and dozens injured. Read more
 

Sunday, September 7, 2008

it got him killed.

California | Local | By Richard Marosi | September 7, 2008
Tecate, Mexico Adrug-sniffing dog pulled the U.S. Border Patrol agent to a rusty cargo container in the storage yard just north of the Mexican border. Read more
 

Friday, September 5, 2008

Roots show at this salon

California | Local | By Marjorie Miller | September 5, 2008
Shortly before 5 a.m. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Protesters battle it out with police

National | By P J. Huffstutter | September 2, 2008
Police and protesters clashed here on the opening day of the Republican National Convention after groups of self-described anarchists, black cloths covering their faces, began roaming the downtown streets – setting fires, throwing rocks and breaking windows. Read more
 

Monday, September 1, 2008

In Mexico, a bounty on every head

World | By Ken Ellingwood | September 1, 2008
Perhaps nothing reveals this country’s kidnapping dread better than one product now on offer from a Mexican company: a tiny transmitter that is implanted under the skin to beam the person’s whereabouts to a satellite. Read more
 

Friday, August 29, 2008

12 decapitated bodies are found in Mexico

World | By Ken Ellingwood and Cecilia Sanchez | August 29, 2008
In a sign of the spreading violence in Mexico, 11 decapitated bodies were found late Thursday near the colonial city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, officials said. Read more
 

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

4 decapitated bodies discovered in Tijuana

World | By Richard Marosi | August 27, 2008
The gruesome discoveries this week of five bodies, four of them decapitated, have shattered a period of relative calm and revived concerns that organized crime groups are escalating their battle for control of this border city. Read more
 

Monday, August 25, 2008

Iraq suicide attack kills 25

World | By Saif Hameed and Tina Susman | August 25, 2008
A suicide bomber rushed into a neighborhood celebration for a man who had just been released from detention Sunday night, detonating his explosives and killing at least 25 other people, police said. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Mexican governor calls for tougher crackdown

World | By Ken Ellingwood | August 19, 2008
The governor of violence-torn Chihuahua state on Monday urged President Felipe Calderon to revamp his anti-crime strategy after a weekend shooting there killed 13 people, including a baby. Read more
 
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