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The White House said Obama discussed his desire with President-elect Mauricio Funes for the two countries to work together on the global economic crisis, energy cooperation and security.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 00:00
The move, part of a cross-border trucking dispute, affects $2.4 billion worth of exports from 40 U.S. states.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 00:00
The Obama administration plans to deploy additional federal law enforcement agents to the U.S.-Mexico border to choke off southbound shipments of automatic weapons and cash drug proceeds that are fueling the Mexican cartels' murderous resistance to Mexico
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 00:00
Obama will be in Mexico April 16-17 to discuss issues ranging from immigration and security to the global financial crisis, Mexican President Felipe Calderon's spokesman, Maximiliano Cortazar, told reporters.
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Drug related violence has gotten so bad south of the border that the U.S. State Department recently issued a travel alert for Mexico. But that's not stopping tens of thousands of American college students heading south for spring break.
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The government sued the Union Pacific Railroad on Wednesday in an effort to force the company to pay $37.7 million in fines that have accumulated since 2001 as a result of drug smuggling across the Mexican border on the company's trains.
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Marijuana or cocaine was found in rail cars at least 38 times between 2001 and 2006, authorities claim. The rail company says it has little control over operations by its corporate partner in Mexico
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An Arizona judge threw out criminal charges on Wednesday against a gun dealer accused of knowingly selling weapons to smugglers shopping for Mexican drug cartels, after he ruled the prosecutor's evidence was flawed.
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The gun shop's proprietor is on trial here, accused of selling at least 650 weapons, including AK-47 rifles, in small lots to "straw buyers" - persons who illegally pass on the weapons to the cartels, thereby fueling the violence that killed mor
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En la poblacion de San Lorenzo, la mision de la OEA "escucho los testimonios de delegados de la sociedad civil y conocio los problemas de inseguridad y los cambios que ha sufrido la ciudad a causa de los desplazamientos constantes de ciudadanos colom