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03/10/2010

U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico warns Americans to avoid travel on highways to Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo
BROWNSVILLE – Citing gunbattles, grenade attacks and "checkpoints" operated by Mexican drug cartels, the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey is warning U.S. residents to avoid travel on highways between Monterrey and two cities on the border with Texas, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo.

03/07/2010

Families, businesses flee embattled Juárez for safer, greener pastures in U.S.
EL PASO – A painting in the apartment of novelist Benjamin Sáenz depicts an exodus of Mexican campesinos to El Paso during the 1910 Mexican Revolution – part of a larger group of refugees that included business and civic leaders. Many settled in this Sunset Heights neighborhood.

03/06/2010

Families, businesses flee Juárez for U.S. pastures

Mariachi singer Walterio Magdaleno (right) sings to customer Naomi Fuentes of Anthony, Texas, at El 33, a bar that relocated from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso.

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Drug cartel-fueled violence is pushing a new wave of emigrants, including civic leaders and entrepreneurs, who have moved dozens of businesses north, generating jobs and a boost in the housing and real estate markets in El Paso.
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03/04/2010

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Gay marriage, adoption arrive in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY – This sprawling capital will catapult to the front lines of gay rights in Latin America today when a city law legalizing gay marriage and adoption goes into effect.

03/03/2010

Update: Border violence
The U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, reiterated a warning to Americans on Tuesday to avoid the border city because of an "an ongoing gunbattle" near the municipal zoo. Long-standing tensions between the Gulf drug cartel and its former employees, the paramilitary Zetas group, broke into open warfare in recent days, officials have said. At least 30 people have been reported killed in Tamaulipas state and neighboring Nuevo León state, both of which border Texas.

03/01/2010

Drug war clashes between Gulf cartel, Zetas may escalate, could affect North Texas
Longstanding tensions between the Zetas paramilitary group and their old employers, the Gulf drug cartel, have exploded into a full-blown war, worrying U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials that a likely protracted battle will further threaten this stretch of the Texas-Mexico border.

02/26/2010

MTV will air 'South Park' with Mexican president
It has a caricature of President Felipe Calderon in front of Mexico's flag, and it didn't run in Mexico as scheduled Feb. 8 because the use of Mexican national symbols requires the government's permission.

02/25/2010

U.S. agents to help Mexico with intelligence on cartels
MEXICO CITY – As a wave of killings continues along the Texas-Mexico border, U.S. officials are planning a stepped-up role that will include U.S. intelligence agents working more closely with newly trained Mexican federal units, U.S. and Mexican officials said Wednesday.

MEXICO TRAVEL ADVISORY
The U.S. government warned its citizens Wednesday against traveling to the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, where 19 people were killed in shootouts this week. On Tuesday, gunmen attacked the police headquarters in the town of Miguel Alemán. Six officers were missing and presumed kidnapped. In the southern state of Oaxaca, assailants stormed a rural town and killed 13 people in attacks that were believed to be drug-related.

Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillen gets 25-year sentence
HOUSTON – Behind armed guards and locked doors, one of the most feared drug lords in history was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison.