drug war

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On a hill overlooking Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Lesly Narvaez Castanon and her staff wage a struggle against substance abuse. Opened in 2005, the government-supported Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Youth Integration Center(CIJ) became the first drug prevention and treatment center to serve this Pacific Coast resort located in the southern state of Guerrero.</p>

Frontera NorteSur

    Mexico-US border police chiefs were at the top of the news in recent days. In a bitter twist to an almost fairytale story that captured the imagination of the US and Mexican press, the 20-year-old  police chief of a small town in the blood-soaked Juarez Valley, Marisol Valles, fled to the US seeking political asylum last week.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Charlie Sheen may have become the best pitchman for international drug cartels, that, I venture, would gladly pay him the added million a week he demands to continue acting on the cancelled Three and a Half Men television sitcom from the better than $30 billion the cartels rake in annually from U.S. users. He can be their poster child luring legions of fans into the world of drug consumption.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stunned by the murders of three people whose lives they tried to save, human rights activists in Ciudad Juarez vow nevertheless to press forward with their movement for justice.</p>

<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur </strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Violeta Serrano takes a break from haggling with a couple from Seattle over the price of a beach towel. Part of the wave of people that’s gradually drifted from Acapulco to other vacation destinations in Mexico, Serrano runs a curio shop just off Puerto Vallarta’s popular Los Muertos Beach.</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday, while I was having dinner with some friends, one of them got a call on his cell phone from another friend, saying that his father had been kidnapped and murdered in the state of Guerrero…</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A 14 year-old and his two older sisters, ages 19 and 23 were arrested in Cuernavaca airport December second. The siblings where about to board a flight headed to Tijuana and then take a shuttle to their final destination: San Diego.</p>