The violence that has racked one of Mexico’s largest and richest cities escalated Thursday afternoon when gunmen entered a casino in the San Jaronimo section of San Pedro Nuevo Leon terrorizing the customers and using incendiary grenades and gasoline to turn the building into a blazing inferno, resulting in the deaths of 61 people and
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BY HERNAN ROZEMBERG & RUXANDRA GUIDI KPBS With every report of drug-related violence in Northern Mexico, comes the fear that the shootouts, the assassinations, and kidnappings will spillover into the United States. But when does a crime along the border become an example of spillover violence? And when is it just a crime? It’s all
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Twelve suspected members of the Zetas drug gang and a member of Mexico’s Navy were killed in a shootout on an island in a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday. The Mexican Navy said the shootout occurred Sunday on Falcon Lake, located between Texas and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, after troops
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From Arizona Republic via Borderland Beat Robert Anglen The Arizona Republic Federal authorities announced charges today against 34 Arizonans accused of buying about 700 guns in gun stores in the state on behalf of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. The arrests and seizures are proof that Arizona has become an iron highway for guns headed south
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Shawna Forde has been convicted of the murder of Brisenia & Raul Flores, what should the sentence be?
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