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20 Dec 2010 19:47

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World: Captured Mexican politician freed, looks like he’s been through hell

  • The good news is that Diego Fernández de Cevallos, a well-known Mexican political figure better known as “El Jefe Diego,” former presidential candidate and top national figure in the country, was freed on Monday after seven months of captivity. The bad news is that he looks like this, has probably been through many horrible things and usually looks like the photo in this CBS article. The worse news is that his family reportedly paid $20 million to get the prominent politician released from captivity. The worst part? His captors released him into the world looking like Santa Claus during Christmas week. Can you get more evil than that? source
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23 Oct 2010 22:43

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World: Massacre at Mexican party; second in last year

  • 13 dead in shooting at Mexico border city source
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20 Oct 2010 21:24

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World: 20-year-old single mom new sheriff of drug-plagued Mexican town

Marisol Valles Garcia is the sheriff of Praxedis G. Guerrero, one of the most violent places in Mexico. A student, she was the only person to offer to take the job. She has balls. source
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19 Oct 2010 01:24

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World: Mexican authorities: HOLY #*@&!!# *@!( THAT’S A LOT OF POT

  • 105 tons of pot seized in Baja California Monday (wow) source
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29 Sep 2010 02:20

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World: The Mexico mudslide just a wee bit less bad than expected

  • 11 people are feared missing or dead, down from 500+ source
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28 Sep 2010 11:01

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World: In Mexico, a huge mudslide could lead to huge death toll

  • 1,000 could be trapped in the mudslide source
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31 Aug 2010 09:34

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World: “La Barbie” a pretty major arrest in Mexican drug war

Barbie has sure gotten ugly over the last few years, hasn’t she? She’s also gotten a pretty bad rep as a drug kingpin in Mexico. source
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25 Aug 2010 22:42

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World: Reason we hate the drug war, No. 2,933: Human-smuggling

  • 72 people killed and dumped at a Mexican ranch source
  • » Why them? It’s another front of the drug war. Drug lords have turned to trafficking humans, extorting them, forcing them to smuggle drugs through the border and sometimes having them work as hitmen. While this dumpage of bodies at a ranch in Tamaulipas state is massive, it’s not the only one that’s taken place. In May, 55 were found in Guerro state and another 51 were found on the outskirts of Monterrey in July. Four words for the people who do this: Scum of the earth.
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27 Jul 2010 09:41

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U.S.: Illegal immigrants in Arizona trying to get out ahead of new law

  • Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving. We have no alternative. They have us cornered.
  • Mexico-born Illegal immigrant Wendi Villasenor • Describing her upcoming move to Pennsylvania from Arizona. The attempt to drive more than 400,000 immigrants out of the state, which becomes law in two days, has led to a mass exodus of people in the state, many holding makeshift garage sales and either looking to go back to Mexico or elsewhere in the U.S., though a few are taking their chances. source
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25 Jul 2010 11:13

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World: Sign of Mexico’s drug violence: Another mass grave found

  • 51 bodies (at least) found in the grave outside Monterrey source
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