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Latin America: Human Rights a Casualty in Chihuahua's Drug War

The Mexican army undertook Operation Join Together Chihuahua in March, as thousands of troops poured into the Mexican border state. As has been the case elsewhere in Mexico, the arrival of the troops has been followed by a growing chorus of human rights complaints.

Feb. '09 drug policy forum held by<br>Mexico's Grupo Parlamentario Alternativa

Mexico Talking But Not Moving on Drug Legalization [FEATURE]

Faced with a mounting death toll, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has called for a debate on legalizing drugs, but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere just yet.

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Top British Doctor and Lawyer Join Drug Decrim Chorus

The just-retired head of the Royal College of Physicians has joined a growing decriminalization chorus in Britain.

Santiago Papasquiaro, site of Saturday's firefight

Mexico Drug War Update

The death toll in Ciudad Juarez this year is over 1,800 so far, meaning 2010 is on pace to be another record year for murder there. And that's just Juarez.

Drug Gang Hires 'pretty' Hitwomen

A suspected member of the vicious La Linea gang reports that his organization is hiring pretty young women to carry out killings in order to surprise its enemies. Around 30 women aged between 18 and 30 years have learned in recent months to carry out killings accompanied by hitmen, and most have already killed people.

Bulletin Warned of Drug Prohibition Violence in El Paso

Intelligence received from the Alliance for Combating Transnational Threats has led city police radio dispatchers to alert officers about potential violence in El Paso stemming from Mexican drug trafficking organization rivalries.

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Drug Legalization Debate Erupts in Mexico

You can't call it a fringe idea when heads of state are bringing it up. Following Mexican President Felipe Calderon's call for a debate about legalizing drugs, his predecessor Vicente Fox is going a step further and calling for outright legalization.

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Five Ways the Drug War Hurts Kids

This Reason.tv interview with LEAP Executive Director Neill Franklin makes a number of strong points:

U.S. Warns Terrorists May Enter the Country From Mexico as Drug War Rages

Many fear that drug prohibition may play a roll in a future terrorist attack in the United States. Now, the U.S. State Department is warning that Mexicoâs drug prohibition violence is straining local law enforcement in the northern part of the country, making it easier for terrorists to enter the U.S. through the border.

It could be a lot worse

Sometimes I get so frustrated at the way the governments,federal and provincial(state in US)are poking their noses into every thing we do and say.We live in a world that is increasingly more contro

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