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Mexico Drug War Update
There has been no holiday break in Mexico's prohibition-related mayhem, but it's now looking like 2011's death toll is going to be down from last year.
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Mexico Drug War Update
2011 is wrapping up as slightly less bloody than 2010 in Mexico's plague of prohibition-related violence, but the death toll this year is still well above 10,000.
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Mexico Drug War Update
Mass murders in Ciudad Juarez and the Comarca Lagunera, and the army killed 11 cartel gunmen in Tamaulipas. Just another week in Mexico's prohibition-related violence.
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Mexico Drug War Update
Some congressional Republicans want to know why the DEA is laundering money for drug cartels. Meanwhile, the killings continue.
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Mexico Drug War Update
Mexican human rights activists have filed a complaint in the Hague against President Calderon for human rights violations committed by Mexican security forces, also mentioning crimes committed by drug cartels. That and the killings and arrests continue, with no apparent impact on the flow of drugs north.
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Honduras Calls Out the Army to Fight Drug Cartels
Facing prohibition-generated violence, the Honduran government has given the military full domestic policing powers.
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Newt Gingrich Wants to Kill Dealers, Drug Test Everybody Else
[inline:Newt_Gingrich_by_Gage_Skidmore_retouched.jpg align=right caption="Newt Gingrich (photo courtesy Gage Skidmore via wikimedia.org)"]Ever since Newt Gingrich became the latest front-runner for the republican presidential nomination, a lot of people have been reminding us how horrible he is on drug policy issues. Heck, even Next Gingrich has been reminding us how horrible Newt Gingrich is on drug policy issues:
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Mexico Drug War Deaths Leveling Off, Study Says
The good news is that prohibition-related killing in Mexico may be leveling off. The bad news is that it's leveling off at horrendous levels.
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Mexico Drug War Update
The cavalcade of arrests, busts, and killings continues in Mexico.
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Mexico's Symbol of Drug War Resistance Says It's Our Fight, Too [FEATURE]
A panel at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference last week called on Americans to take action to help end the drug war in Mexico, even as Human Rights Watch releases as a damning report on government killings, tortures, and disappearances in the drug war.