Read more drug cartel stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8667/drug-cartel.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:05:40 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73361/mexican-mayor-trumpets-foes-death-before-body-found.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMonterrey-area mayor Mauricio Fernandez is facing some tough questions after announcing the death of his drug baron nemesis hours before the body was found and days before it was identified. "Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for my head, was found dead today in Mexico City," Fernandez...http://www.newser.com/story/73361/mexican-mayor-trumpets-foes-death-before-body-found.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 3:20:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73365/mexican-gangs-move-into-us-indian-land.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMexican drug gangs have been rapidly expanding their marijuana-growing operations in the US in recent years, especially on Indian reservations. The gangs take advantage of underfunded tribal police departments, large tracts of unused land, and overlapping jurisdictions to set up grows on reservations from California to South Dakota, authorities say....http://www.newser.com/story/73365/mexican-gangs-move-into-us-indian-land.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 2:12:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72361/300-arrested-in-drug-raids-across-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, federal officials today announced the arrests of more than 300 people in raids across the country aimed at the newest and most violent cartel. La Familia has earned a reputation for dominating the methamphetamine trade and for using...http://www.newser.com/story/72361/300-arrested-in-drug-raids-across-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 16:10:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71139/us-grown-mom-n-pop-pot-burns-mexican-cartels.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMexican drug cartels are facing an opponent more formidable than law enforcement: competition. The long-growing illicit US pot industry has gotten a shot in the arm from the new rules surrounding medical marijuana, the Washington Post reports. Whereas once Mexican and Colombian groups produced nearly all the pot consumed in...http://www.newser.com/story/71139/us-grown-mom-n-pop-pot-burns-mexican-cartels.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 10:20:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68493/17-massacred-at-mexican-rehab-clinic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHooded gunmen killed 17 people after storming a Mexican drug and alcohol rehab center in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, Sky News reports. The men, believed to be hitmen from a drug cartel, forced the patients to line up in a corrider before gunning them down. Gangs have targeted rehab clinics in...http://www.newser.com/story/68493/17-massacred-at-mexican-rehab-clinic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Sep 2009 3:08:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67891/mexican-drug-informants-import-violence-to-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration and state governments are spending billions to keep Mexico's escalating drug war from spilling over the border. But the feds fighting trafficking have also relied on Mexican cartel members for intelligence—and that, says the Washington Post , has unleashed gangland-style violence in American cities. Drug kingpins living...http://www.newser.com/story/67891/mexican-drug-informants-import-violence-to-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 5:03:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66570/obama-defends-mexicos-drug-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama expressed his support for Mexico’s war on drug cartels after today's North American summit, the New York Times reports. Obama defended Felipe Calderón—who some criticize for not holding the Mexican army accountable for reported human rights abuses against the drug traders—saying that the ruthless traffickers were...http://www.newser.com/story/66570/obama-defends-mexicos-drug-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 14:28:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64745/mexican-cops-busted-in-12-federal-agent-murders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTen Mexican police officers have been arrested in the torture-murder of a dozen federal agents whose mangled corpses were found along a highway in the western state of Michoacan, reports the BBC. Local police are believed to regularly take payoffs from drug traffickers. Some 5,000 heavily armed troops have...http://www.newser.com/story/64745/mexican-cops-busted-in-12-federal-agent-murders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Jul 2009 7:05:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64524/8th-bust-made-in-murder-of-fla-pair-cartel-link-surfaces.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn eighth arrest was made yesterday in the killing of a Florida couple with 16 kids, the Pensacola News Journal reports. Pamela Long Wiggins, 47, has been charged as an accessory to the crime. She has been linked to two other suspects—she rents an apartment to the man described...http://www.newser.com/story/64524/8th-bust-made-in-murder-of-fla-pair-cartel-link-surfaces.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 16 Jul 2009 8:00:00 CDT