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15 killed in Mexico in suspected drug violence
Mexico City :: Mexico | 23 days ago
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:05:32 GMT Font size : Fifteen people have been shot dead at a borderline Mexico ranch by suspected drug gangs operating across the border from the US, local media reported. According to a Sonora state official, the bodies have been...
Tags: Mexico, farm leader, Sonora, Margarito Montes, drug gangs, local police
More die amid Rio slum violence
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
Credibility The fighting erupted at the weekend when a police helicopter was shot down by suspected drug traffickers. Gun battles have since erupted between drug gangs and hundreds of heavily armed police deployed to find those behind the attack. The violence comes...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, rio slum, drug gangs
Chopper down, 16 dead, Rio mayor aims for peaceful Olympics
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility In the most dramatic incident two policemen died when their helicopter was shot down as it hovered near rival drug gangs who were having a shoot-out in the Morro dos Macacos slum in the north of the city. The incident triggered an assault on slums by...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Morro dos Macacos, deaths toll, drug gangs, UK Sport, bloody clashes
Olympic security questioned after Rio violence
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Rio is a big city. "I deeply regret what happened in Rio recently but I have to say that it pales into insignificance compared to what happened in London in 2005." The day after London won the right to host the 2012 Olympics four suicide bombers killed...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, London, Brazil, Eduardo Paes, drug gangs, olympic games, gangs violence
Rio police die as helicopter hit
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
Credibility The helicopter came down after the pilot was hit in the leg by a bullet and burst into flames. At least 10 other people were reported to have died in the fighting...It was the worst outbreak of violence since the city was awarded the 2016 Olympic Games...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, police helicopter, shot downed, drug gangs, gun battle, olympic games, drug traffickers, morro dos, rio violence, dos macacos
Mexico quadruples cops after 20 slain
Mexico City :: Mexico | 4 months ago
Credibility Mexico on Thursday quadrupled the number of federal police in a gang-plagued western state after a cartel's revenge slaying of 20 officers and troops...Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated Thursday that the U.S. Merida Initiative, a $1.4...
Tags: Mexico, Michoacan, drug gangs, Alejandro Marti, federal police
Mexico boosts police level after cartel attacks
Mexico City :: Mexico | 4 months ago
Credibility Last weekend's attacks by La Familia drug cartel were a blatant challenge to President Felipe Calderon, who has deployed about 45,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of federal police across the country in an attempt to halt the escalating drug trade.
Tags: Mexico, Michoacan, La Familia, drug cartels, familia cartels, president felipe, federal police, Felipe Calderón, drug gangs, Servando Gomez Martinez
Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks
Mexico City :: Mexico | 5 months ago
Credibility MEXICO CITY: Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States. Armed and masked navy officers cut open more...
Tags: Mexico, suspected drug, drug gangs
Mexican priest killed in ambush
Badiraguato :: Mexico | 5 months ago
Credibility The three were driving through the picturesque town of Arcelia, around 170km (105 miles) north of Acapulco. No motive has been given for the attack, which happened at the weekend. But Church leaders say the clergy are increasingly caught in the midst...
Tags: Mexico, drug gangs
Shootout kills 18 in Acapulco hotel zone
Acapulco :: Mexico | 5 months ago
Credibility Acapulco, Mexico — Reuters, Sunday, Jun. 07, 2009 04:23PM EDT E ighteen people were killed in a shootout between drug gangs and soldiers in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco, the army said on Sunday. The gun battle, near tourist hotels in the Pacific...
Tags: Acapulco Gun Battle Leaves, shootout kills, hours shootout, beach resort, anonymous tip, tourist cowering, drug war, drug gangs, hotel zone, Mexico
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