Calderon lashes US after drug-war casino blaze kills 52
President Calderon has demanded a crackdown on drugs in the US after cartel "terrorists" torched an upmarket casino in Mexico, killing 52 people.
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Drug war dispute to dominate US-Mexico meeting
Mexican President Felipe Calderón will press President Barack Obama to crack down on US drug consumption when they meet on Thursday.
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Cartel bloodbath on Mexican border claims 50 lives
Two headless corpses wrapped in blankets, five beaten and bound men asphyxiated in a car, and the mayor of a sizeable town riddled with bullets.
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Bomb kills one, wounds two in Mexico City
A bomb exploded on a street near the security ministry in central Mexico City on Friday, killing one person and wounding two. No group claimed responsibility for the blast and there was no warning. The government is locked in a battle with drug gangs and has yet to catch left-wing rebels who planted small bombs at oil installations last year.
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Mudslide buries houses in flooded Mexico
A huge wall of mud and water engulfed a remote village in flood-ravaged southern Mexico on Monday and the government said at least 16 people were missing. Mexican media reported as many as 30 people could be missing in the landslide.
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Mexico floods recede as thousands more evacuated
Thousands more people were plucked from rooftops in southern Mexico on Sunday even as floods that have left 800 000 people homeless in Tabasco state began to recede, authorities said. The army evacuated 5 000 people in a four-hour operation with 14 helicopters, police official Daniel Montiel said.
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One million people affected by Mexico floods
Rescuers worked on Friday on rescuing hundreds of thousands of people trapped by the worst floods ever recorded in Mexico’s southern state of Tabasco, with more than one million residents affected. The oil-rich state the size of Belgium is now 80% underwater, officials said, adding that they expect more rain in the next days.
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Tens of thousands trapped in Mexico floods
Tens of thousands of Mexicans were trapped on rooftops and others clung to lampposts on Thursday after heavy rains flooded nearly the entire southern state of Tabasco. At least 500 000 people were made homeless and one person was killed in the worst flooding the swampy state has seen in more than 50 years.
