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I'm running on fumes so it may be later that I come back on and add a few juicy tidbits. Anyway, here's a good link to some of the crime problem in Mexico.

El Universal  (Mexico City)  5/11/08
 
Sinaloans have opted for locking themselves up inside their houses for fear of being victims of the drug cartel combats which have cost the lives of 46 persons so far this month. Not even yesterday, Day of the Mothers, (sic) did the residents go out to celebrate. The city looked desolate and fear spread itself among the population.
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a.b.c. , El Universal  (both Mexico City) ,  El Debate  (Culiacan, Sinaloa)  5/11/08
 
Mexico's National Security Cabinet will hold an urgent meeting Tuesday (5/13) in Culiacan regarding strategies against insecurity. Attending will be the Secretary of Government, Juan Mourino and his counterpart in Sinaloa, Jesus Aguilar. Also present will be the Secretary of Defense, Guillermo Galvan and the Att'y. Gen., Eduardo Medina, plus the Sec. of Federal Public Security, Genaro Garcia , the Sec. of the Navy and the Director of Natn'l. Investigations and Security Center.
 
Elsewhere in Culiacan: federal police surrounded and searched the office of an alleged private security and investigations firm; they seized twelve AK47 rifles, an AR15, a .40 caliber grenade launcher and a .50 caliber Barret rifle which can down aircraft and penetrate armor. Five subjects were arrested and have already been flown to Mexico City. One of the detainees, Alfonso Gutierrez Loera, is said to be a cousin of prominent drug dealer Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka "El Chapo.'
Also seized at the same place: three grenades, 102 clips and 3,543 rounds of ammunition.
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El Diario de Coahuila  (Saltillo, Coahuila)  5/11/08
 
(Note: the following was the introduction, in large italic font style, of a long recounting of past violent events generally in the state of Sinaloa)
 
- It is ever more clear that the violence associated with narcotraffic in Mexico cannot be contained by anything or anyone nor by the federal government or by a combination of both....  Moreover, its expansive wave corrodes