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DATE	DATELINE	BYLINE	TYPE	HEADLINE
May 24, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico detains 16 police who protected drug gang Forget "get out of jail free cards." Prosecutors in Mexico say they have detained 16 policemen who allegedly took bribes to protect drug gang members who carried specially marked cards to avoid detention.
May 23, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico's Agustin Carstens joins race for IMF chief Mexico has proposed its central bank chief as the next head of the International Monetary Fund, as the nominating period for a job popularly known as "the world's banker" officially started.
May 23, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Graves in other northern Mexico state yield 219 bodies, signal rift in powerful Sinaloa Cartel The vacant car repair lot hardly looks out of place in a vibrant but gritty part of the northern colonial city of Durango, famous as the set for John Wayne westerns.
May 22, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Brilliant Cortes goal gives Pumas Mexican crown MEXICO CITY, May 22 (Reuters) - Pumas UNAM won the Mexican Clausura championship when they beat surprise finalists Morelia
May 21, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico mass graves of 219 signal major cartel rift In this picture taken Tuesday May 17, 2011, police investigators stand next to the bodies of four men that were killed by unknown gunmen and dumped by the side of the road on the outskirts of Durango, Mexico.
May 20, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico launches new tourism campaign to combat fears over violence Mexico has launched a new adertising campaign to counter its image as a country wracked by drug-related violence and reinvigorate the vital tourist industry after US travel alerts warned Americans of violence south of the border.
May 19, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Lagarde Leads IMF Race; Competition From Mexico French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's candidacy for IMF chief gained momentum in Europe on Sunday while Mexico put forward its own candidate, ensuring competition for the top job.
May 18, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	250ft drug smugglers' tunnel under Mexico-US border discovered A sophisticated drug smugglers' tunnel fitted with lights, water pumps and a ventilation system has been uncovered running under the US and Mexico border.
May 17, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico to Present Carstens for Top Post at IMF Mexico central bank Governor Agustin Carstens will be presented as a candidate for managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the Finance Ministry said in an e-mailed statement today.
May 16, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico offers $2 million for top drug lords Mexico's government on Monday offered $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public challenge to the cartels' violent grip on the country.
May 15, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico man pleads guilty to attempted China spying A 22-year-old U.S. Navy sailor pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of attempted espionage for trying to sell classified documents to someone he believed was a Chinese intelligence officer.
May 14, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Bono talks drug violence with Mexico's president U2's Bono has met with President Felipe Calderon and the two discussed the drug violence and poverty affecting Mexico.
May 13, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico announces squad for Gold Cup in June Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez will headline the 23-player squad for defending champion Mexico at the Gold Cup in the United States in June.
May 13, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	8 decapitated bodies found in Mexico Mexican police found eight headless naked bodies in the northern city of Durango, including the remains of a deputy prison governor, officials said.
May 13, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico fires 7 officials from immigration agency Seven top officials were fired Thursday from Mexico's National Immigration Institute, part of a wider cleanup effort at the embattled department amid rampant migrant kidnappings and accusations that some agents have been involved.
May 12, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Volaris to launch flights from SD to Mexico in July San Diego International Airport will be picking up a couple more international flights in July when Mexico’s Volaris Airlines begins flying non-stop flights to Mexico City and Guadalajara
May 12, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Toll from mass graves in northern Mexico at 180 A Mexican security official says 180 bodies have been unearthed over the past month during excavations of clandestine graves discovered in a northern Mexico state besieged by drug-gang violence.
May 11, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico's president offers to meet with anti-violence movement President Felipe Calderon says he would like to try to bridge the gap with organizers of the March for Peace, which drew tens of thousands of Mexicans to the streets to demand a new strategy in the drug war.
May 11, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Criticism of Calderon mounts over Mexico drug violence Outrage over the rising death toll has generated sporadic street protests, and a massive demonstration is set for Sunday in Mexico City to denounce the government's failure to stem the bloodshed.
May 10, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Gunmen dump beheaded bodies outside school in Mexico Suspected drug hitmen dumped six headless bodies outside a school in northern Mexico Monday a day after forensics pulled victims out of a nearby mass grave in a stream of unrelenting violence that is pressuring Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
May 9, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Rapidly mounting toll from Mexico graves at 168 Soldiers have unearthed 11 more bodies from mass graves in northern Mexico, bringing the rapidly mounting toll from the monthlong search to at least 168.
May 9, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	In Mexico City, crowds protest drug violence Bearing white balloons and fake bloodstains, tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded Mexico City's historic downtown Sunday to call for an end to the country's unrelenting drug violence.
May 8, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Thousands march against violence in Mexico City An anti-violence march that began in a central state with a few hundred people and gathered thousands over a four-day trek reached Mexico's capital on Sunday, led by a poet whose son was killed by suspected drug traffickers.
May 7, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Families desperate to recover bodies at Mexico mine Rescuers pulled a seventh body from a collapsed coal mine in northern Mexico on Friday as families gave up hope of finding seven other trapped workers alive after an explosion earlier this week.
May 6, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mazatlan, Mexico on Sale from American Airlines Save on flights to Mazatlan, Mexico, with the current sale from American Airlines. Fares are valid for outbound travel from June 9 through September 7.
May 5, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Lady Gaga Debuts New Song Onstage in Mexico; "Judas" Video Arrives Today Lady Gaga had a special treat for her audience in Guadalajara, Mexico on Tuesday night -- a stripped-down piano version of a new song from her upcoming Born This Way album.
May 5, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico adds 93.3 metric tons of gold to reserves Mexico’s central bank purchased 93.3 metric tons of gold in February and March, another signal that emerging markets are likely to steadily raise their gold reserve holdings, industry participants say.
May 4, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexican gunmen tap bus passengers in mass killing MEXICO CITY — The buses crawled to a halt to obey roadblocks manned by armed men, who boarded like military or police doing an inspection. One by one, they tapped certain passengers, all men, mostly young, to get off: "You. You. You."
May 4, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico coal mine explosion: 14 miners trapped A gas explosion in a coal mine in Mexico has trapped 14 miners and injured another in northern Coahuila state near the US border.
May 4, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Sunday peace rally in Mesilla to protest Mexico drug war Mexican journalist and asylum seeker Emilio Gutierrez, along with a group of supporters, is encouraging people in this region to join a rally in Mesilla in support of the national marches calling for peace that will take place all across Mexico 3 p.m. Sunday.
May 3, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	No chance' that the five Mexican miners are still alive Five other miners were killed outright in the blast, in a small pit in the desert state of Coahuila near Texas.
May 3, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico's remittances up 5.5 pct in 1st quarter Mexico's central bank says the amount of money migrant workers sent home in the first quarter of 2011 increased by 5.5 percent compared to the same period last year.
May 2, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	1,400 killed in Mexico drug war in April The death toll of Mexico's drug war in April has risen to 1,400, the highest number of monthly killings since the beginning of the government's anti-drug campaign.
May 1, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	New murder record in Mexico: More than 1,400 in April MEXICO CITY - The drug-war death toll for Mexico in April was 1,400, the highest of any month since the Mexican government began its war on illicit drug trade four years ago.
April 30, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	SoCal Rider Jeff 'Ox' Kargola Dies In Mexico Motocross Race Jeff 'Ox' Kargola, a Southern California freestyle racer, died Friday from injuries sustained in a crash on day two of the"Desert Assassins' 2011 Rip to the Tip" motocross competition in Mexico,
April 29, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexican drug kingpin extradited to U.S. to face racketeering, drug conspiracy charges The Mexican government Friday extradited to the U.S. drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix, the former leader of one of Mexico’s most feared and powerful organized crime groups, whose ruthless reign transformed northern Baja California into a major drug trafficking corridor into the U.S.
April 29, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	18 killed In Gunbattles In Northeastern Mexico Gunbattles between rival gangs killed 18 people in a northeastern Mexican town Monday, a day after seven police officers and an inmate died in an ambush of a convoy transporting prisoners in western Mexico.
April 28, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico Mass Grave Body Count Nears 300 The number of murder victims unearthed in mass graves in northern Mexico this month has risen to 279, making it easily the worst discovery of its kind since the government began a campaign against drug cartels.
April 27, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	51 hostages rescued in Mexican border city, government says (CNN) -- Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country's public security ministry said Tuesday.
April 27, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	U.S. Stymied as Guns Flow to Mexican Cartels HOUSTON — John Phillip Hernandez, a 24-year-old unemployed machinist who lived with his parents, walked into a giant sporting goods store here in July 2006, and plunked $2,600 in cash on a glass display counter.
April 26, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	U.S. extends Mexico travel warning over drug mayhem Spreading drug cartel violence in northern and central Mexico has led U.S. authorities to increase the number of states Americans should avoid for safety reasons.
April 26, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico agency confirms $1B fine for Slim's company MEXICO CITY – Mexico's antitrust agency confirmed Sunday that it levied a $1 billion (12 billion peso) fine against the Mexican cellphone subsidiary of tycoon Carlos Slim and ordered it to stop unfair practices.
April 26, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	5 females found with throats slashed in Acapulco Police in Acapulco say four women and a teenage girl have been found with their throats cut in the Mexican resort city. All appear to have been connected to the same beauty parlour.
April 25, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Police, bus companies failed to act as graves filled in Tamaulipas There were clues but nothing was done, and now at least 177 bodies have been unearthed. Demand grows for dismissing the state's elected but apparently ineffective officials.
April 25, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexican brothers face death in Malaysia drug trial In this May 26, 2001 family photo released by the Gonzalez Villareal family on April 4, 2011, Hector Gonzalez Rios, center bottom, sits with most of his family during his birthday.
April 25, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico aims to protect reporters from cartel violence MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon announced a plan Wednesday to protect journalists in Mexico, where violence against reporters has surged since the government launched a crackdown on drug traffickers nearly four years ago.
April 25, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico tops Canada in FIFA U-17 World Cup primer Canada's under-17 men's team dropped a 3-0 decision to Mexico on Sunday in a tune-up for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
April 24, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	FBI: No evidence U.S. victims targeted CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Confused hit men may have gone to the wrong party, the FBI said Tuesday as it cast doubt on fears that the slaying of three people with ties to the U.S. consulate shows that Mexican drug cartels have launched an offensive against U.S. government employees.
April 24, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico: 32 more bodies recovered MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say another 32 bodies have been exhumed from clandestine graves in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, bringing the total to 177 this month. Tamaulipas prosecutors say in a statement that the latest bodies were found in eight pits discovered during the past week.
April 23, 2011	Mexico City	Cecilia Sanchez, Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Drug violence puts dent in Mexico City's Easter exodus This year, some residents are forgoing the annual spring trip to tourist areas such as Acapulco, where drug cartel violence have made inroads.
April 22, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Police: Human smugglers kidnap 16 migrants in Mexico At least 16 migrants, including a woman, were being held for ransom by human smugglers in Tijuana, Mexico, according to a migrant who was freed, authorities said late Wednesday.
April 20, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico says £2.5 million Mayan statue is a fake The Mexican government says a Mayan-style statue that brought $4 million (£2.5 million euros) at auction is a fake. The auctioneers say it is genuine.
April 21, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	The Mexican drug war is not going away Mexico’sÂ violent drug war has been a major topic of discussion in news today. And there is no doubt the highlighting of the deteriorating situation will cause Lou Dobbs to throw a hissy fit about border security and dangerous Mexicans tonight.
April 20, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	5 Americans killed in Mexico in past week CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A U.S. university student was shot to death, becoming the fifth American slain in this violent border city in six days, Mexican and U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
April 19, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	One dead, two arrested after Mexico shoot-out Mexican police killed a suspected drug gunman and seized an arsenal of machine guns after a shoot-out in Zitacuaro, Michocoan.
April 19, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	US ambassador to Mexico resigns over leaked cable The US ambassador to Mexico has resigned amid a furore over a leaked diplomatic cable in which he complained about inefficiency and infighting among Mexican security forces in the campaign against drug cartels
April 18, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Police raid ends jetliner hijacking in Mexico A jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun was briefly hijacked as it landed in Mexico City today. The hijackers released all passengers shortly before federal police stormed the plane, and the crew emerged unharmed moments later.
April 17, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Dolphins found dead The discovery of more than 100 dead dolphins on Gulf of Mexico shores likely reflects only a small fraction of the total killed by the BP oil spill last year, a study suggested on Wednesday.
April 16, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Body count from mass graves in Mexico rises to 145 Sixteen police officers are arrested for allegedly providing cover to drug-cartel gangsters suspected in the slayings. The graves were found near the northern Mexico town of San Fernando, where the arrested officers worked.
April 15, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico Prison Gang Fighting Kills 28 -- BBC A woman is comforted near the body of a murder victim in Juárez, Mexico, in April. Reuters
April 15, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Magnitude-5.7 earthquake shakes Mexico’s Gulf coast A magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook Mexico’s Gulf coast on Friday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
April 14, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	16 Mexico police officers held, accused of aiding cartels in massacres The federal attorney general's office identifies the 16 as municipal police in the Tamaulipas town of San Fernando, near where more than 120 bodies have been found in the last week in mass graves.
April 13, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Death toll in Tamaulipas mass graves reaches 116 As authorities unearth 28 more bodies in Tamaulipas state while investigating bus kidnappings, the federal government sends in more troops to monitor highways. Officials have arrested 17 people in the case.
April 13, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	US customs agent shot dead in Mexico attack Gunmen have shot dead a United States customs agent and wounded another in Mexico, where violence between powerful drug cartels and security forces has surged.
April 13, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Cancun bar attack is more bad news for Mexico tourism At least eight people died after attackers hurled gasoline bombs into a crowded Cancun bar early Tuesday. Although the bar is outside the popular resort zone in a residential area unfrequented by tourists, the apparent drug-related killings are among the latest in a string of bad news for Mexico's beleagured tourism industry.
April 12, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico female police chief flees to US A 20-year-old student and mother who took on the role of police chief in one of Mexico's most lawless towns has fled to the United States after receiving death threats.
April 12, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico Drug War Death Toll Climbs Government Says Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez said that 30,196 people have been killed in drug-related violence nationwide since President Felipe Calderon took office four years ago
April 12, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	News Mexico - The Arrest of La Barbie Defense News: DTN News: Mexico - The Arrest of La Barbie
April 11, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexico security official’s convoy ambushed, 4 dead Gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a convoy carrying the top security official of the western state of Michoacan on today, leaving four dead and 10 wounded in the second brazen ambush in as many days.
April 10, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	ACAPULCO, Mexico Forensic investigators searched for more hidden graves Thursday near where they had already found 18 badly decomposed cadavers.
April 9, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexican police officers arrested 16 Mexican police officers have been arrested suspected of protecting four members of a notorious drug cartel for the massacres of at least 145 people in a northern border state.
April 8, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Tianguis Artesanal, Uruapan The 51st edition of the Tianguis Artesanal in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico opened on April 16th and will run full-bore until the end of the month,
April 8, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico prison gang fighting kills 29 Mexican army soldiers patrol outside the Mazatlan prison, Mexico, 14 June 2010 Sinaloa's governor had warned of overcrowding at the Mazatlan prison
April 8, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	6 arrests made in Mexican mayor's killing, governor says Mexico City, Mexico (News Today) - Five police officers and a transit worker have been arrested in the abduction and killing of a mayor this week in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, the state's governor, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, announced Friday
April 8, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	U.S. Sees Heightened Threat In Mexico -- Wall Street Journal To Combat 'Narcoinsurgency,' Obama Administration Considers New Military and Intelligence Aid Against Drug Gangs
April 8, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	13 more bodies found in Mexico mass graves The bodies were found in a different spot in the state of Tamaulipas than graves where 59 corpses were found earlier. Authorities found those bodies while investigating kidnappings of bus passengers.
April 7, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexican officials find 59 bodies in mass graves Officials investigating the kidnapping last month of bus passengers find the bodies in eight graves in Tamaulipas; it is not clear whether they were among those seized. Five captives are rescued and 11 suspects arrested.
April 7, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood, Cecilia	Story	Thousands across Mexico protest drug violence Marches are held in several cities, prompted by the killing of seven people, one of whom was the son of a prominent poet, Javier Sicilia.
April 6, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Mexican pyramids under threat from Equinox revellers Mexico's pyramids are at risk of being damaged by thousands of people who will gather at them for the Spring Equinox, the country's heritage protection body has warned.
April 5, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	Sunday shootout in Juarez leaves three cartel gunmen dead, police say A predawn, hourlong gun battle -- the latest volley in an escalating series of attacks on Mexican federal police by drug cartel hitmen -- left three cartel gunmen dead Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a federal police spokesman told CNN.
April 4, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Ciudad Juarez's top police official accused of rights abuses Human rights activists demand an outside investigation into the disappearance of four civilian men March 26 in the city, which has the highest drug-war death toll in Mexico.
April 3, 2011	Mexico City	Ken Ellingwood	Story	25 killed in Mexico clashes A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said.
April 2, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Mexico: 28,000 Killed in Drug Violence Since 2011 MEXICO CITY — Gruesome murders appear to be commonplace in Mexico. The severed heads of eight men found in pairs along highways in Durango. Seventeen people massacred at a birthday party in Torreon. The bodies of 55 people found dumped in a mine near the town of Taxco
April 1, 2011	Mexico City	Tracy Wilkinson	Story	Improving Diagnosis Of Leukemia In Mexico Main Category: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Also Included In