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Monday, April 01, 2013  Mexican drug cartels are dispatching some of their trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States.

Thursday, February 14, 2013  For the first time since Prohibition, Chicago has a new Public Enemy No. 1 -- a drug cartel kingpin in Mexico.

Thursday, October 18, 2012  Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutor says seven Mexican federal officials have been detained for alleged links to the Sinaloa drug cartel.

Monday, August 13, 2012 

Friday, June 29, 2012  Authorities are investigating a car bomb that exploded outside Nuevo Laredo's city hall and that left four people wounded.

Monday, June 04, 2012  Mexican tourism officials say there has been a 5.3 percent increase in the number of international visitors to Mexico from January to April.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012  Federal officials have unsealed the indictment of Mexican drug boss Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "El Chapo," leader of the Sinaloa cartel and one of the world's richest men.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012  Mexico's top domestic security official says a U.S. State Department travel warning on almost half of Mexico's states is 'ridiculous' and 'out of proportion.'

Tuesday, January 31, 2012  The Mexican army says the drought is so bad in the country's north that even illicit drug growers and their normally well-tended crops of marijuana and opium poppies are being harmed.

Monday, January 23, 2012  Mexican officials say members of an army special forces unit fatally shot a high-ranking aide to the country's most-wanted drug dealer in a gunfight in the northern state of Durango.

Saturday, January 21, 2012  A federal jury hears graphic descriptions of gruesome methods used by Zetas against a rival Mexican drug cartel.

Monday, December 26, 2011  The Mexican army says it has dealt a significant blow to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel with the arrest of the cartel leader's security chief.

Friday, April 09, 2010  The Associated Press reports Mexico's most powerful kingpin now controls coveted drug trafficking routes through Ciudad Juarez.

Thursday, February 18, 2010  A man accused of being an influential, second-generation member of the Sinaloa drug cartel was extradited from Mexico to the United States today.

Monday, January 18, 2010  A severed human head and a flower were found in front of the tomb of deceased Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva.