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June 17 - Immigration only tip of ICE-ICEbergAgency deals with smuggling, drugs, weapons, agent says

June 17 - U.S. to Let Immigration Agents Make Drug Arrests

The Obama administration is preparing to give more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents authority to make drug arrests to assist Mexico's bloody battle with drug cartels, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told senators today.

June 17 - Military finds one of Mexico's largest meth labs

June 17 - Agents seize $180,000 from Mexico-bound suitcase

June 17 - New Mexico travels to Italy for advice on Mexico drug trafficking crimes

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LEFT: Front page picture in June 19 edition of El Universal, one of Mexico's largest papers.

Translation of Caption

"Narco Trafficking - The Fight for Our Country"

Two articles in today's Excelsior

June 19 - Catalog of recent killings in drug wars, from vigilantes leaving 3 bound, tortured bodies supposedly from Los Zetas kidnapping and drug gang, to various assassinated police officers.

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June 19 - 27 out of 30 police and civilian Michaocan state officials arrested by army last week in drug sweep bound over for trial..

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JUNE 19 - AP Story of how relatives of drug cartel leaders could once run for office without worry of that association being taken up. No more, no more.

PERMAMENT VERSON HERE.

June 18 - U.S. lacks a coordinated strategy to stem the flow of weapons across its southern border, a failure that has fueled the rise of powerful criminal cartels and violence in Mexico.

June 18 - 11 year old Texas girl visits relatives in Mexico and gets gunned down alongside adult and becomes latest victim of Mexico’s drug war.

June 18 - Naval Academy midshipman is in brig in pot smuggling case from Mexico.

June 18 - Killing shows Mexico clergy no longer cloaked from drug cartels' aim

June 17 - ROSARITO BEACH, Mexico , Mexican soldiers rescued a kidnapped 66-year-old man and arrested four people suspected in a string of Baja California slayings, officials said.

June 17 - Former Mormon Church leader now living in Mexico kidnapped leaving his ranch.

JUNE 13 - A Mexican Cartel's Swift and Grisly Climb - the Michoacan Cartel Arises from Blood of other cartels. READ STORY

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June 17- Mexican naval officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than 20 sharks aboard a freight ship.

June 16 - Six bodies found at dried river bed, bound, with signs of torture in suspected drug slaughter. TRANSLATION.

June 16 - Army refuses to produce soldiers in court who arrested 40 police officers last week whose names were on payroll of drug cartels. Police claim they were tortured. TRANSLATION

June 16 - Mexico's top crime family active in US

The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country.

JUNE 16 - ACAPULCO, Mexico – Gunmen ordered a priest and two seminarians out of their vehicle and shot them dead in a drug-plagued region of western Mexico, authorities said Monday.

JUNE 16 - U.S. to check Mexico-bound vehicles

WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- U.S. border agents will now check for guns and drug money in vehicles heading south over the border into Mexico, officials say.

June 14 - The Mexican Army has captured 25 gunmen in northern Mexico who witnesses say had disguised themselves as soldiers, officials said Sunday.

June 14 - Mexican officials say they have arrested a drug cartel leader in Cancun who is believed to be behind the murder of a retired general last February.

June 14 - U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Case to Stop U.S.-Mexico Border FenceThe

June 9 - Gunmen throw grenades in Acapulco,
3 police killed! - ACAPULCO, Mexico – Gunmen launched grenades and opened fire in near simultaneous attacks on two police stations in Acapulco Monday, killing three officers in violence that broke out less than 48 hours after a gunbattle in the resort left 17 dead. READ STORY

June 6 - Mexican and Columbian drug cartels combine to build fiberglass submarines not detectable by radar that can bring in tons of cocaine and heroin into U.S., with U.S. military admitting they are undetectable. 70 subs already built and robot subs coming.

June 6 - The Obama administration released yesterday a counternarcotics strategy for the U.S.-Mexico border that calls for deploying new technology, stepping up intelligence gathering and increasing interdiction of ships, aircraft and vehicles that are smuggling drugs, gun and cash.

June 5- Reuters: Drug gangs kill 11 in Mexico, mutilate bodies Mexican police found 11 bodies in an abandoned vehicle near the U.S. border on Thursday, some with their hands and legs cut off and left with threatening messages scrawled by suspected drug hit men.

June 5 - AP VERSION OF SAME STORY: 11 bodies found inside abandoned car in Mexico Mexican police found 11 bodies — most with their hands and feet cut off — inside an abandoned car in the border state of Sonora Thursday in violence attributed to drug traffickers battling for control of the region.

June 5 - ARMY arrests 8 more Nuevo Leon police for drug corruptoin, bringing to 80 arrested in this week's sweep. TRANSLATION

JUNE 5 - ECONOMIST; Increasingly, Mexico is not only exporter of drugs but consumer, sparking gov't concerns.

June 5 - Recaptured prisoner among 53 escapees in mass breakout said drug gang attacked the prison to free one of its key leaders. TRANSLATION

Mexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa SA (TV) said it will launch a premium video channel with online social networking site hi5 to distribute and commercialize Televisa's content., but not in U.S.

June 3 - Grupo Mexico SAB, Mexico’s largest mining company, was ordered by a U.S. judge to put into escrow $8.84 billion worth of stock in Southern Copper Corp. while it appeals a Texas court loss.

June 2 - Mexico's Central Bank Governor: Mexico's recession may be touching bottom.

June 7 - ACAPULCO, Mexico – Mexican soldiers fought a two-hour battle with heavily armed men of suspected drug gang holed up at a house in an Acapulco hotel zone, killing 15 of the gunmen as Mexican tourist cowered in their rooms nearby. READ FULL STORY HERE

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June 2 - New York Times: Drug trafficking has long been a family affair in Mexico, handed down through the generations, bu relatives who say they are not involved in drugs, including government and police officials, object to characterization and even arrest of some of them.

June 2 - $380,000 Reward Offered for Help in Solving Journalist’s Murder ny suspected Mexican deug traffickers

June 2 - In suburban Ohio, a Growing Market for the Mexican Drug Trade Among Middle Class Youths

June 2 - Mexico detains 29 police officers for alleged links to drug traffickers near U.S. border

June 2 - Military Arrests Four More High Police Officals in Nuevo Leon State in Second Day of Operations Against Drug Corruption. TRANSLATION.