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Mexico angered by drug lord's spot on Forbes list
Nov 13th, 2009 - Forbes
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico decried Forbes magazine's decision to name the country's most-wanted drug lord to its "World's Most Powerful People," calling it an insult to the government's bloody struggle against drug cartels.
Song banned, band pulls out
Oct 29th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Mexico City - Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico's superstar norteño band, abruptly canceled its participation Wednesday in a major awards show after it...
Tigres del Norte nix Mexico show, cite censorship
Oct 29th, 2009 - Boston
MEXICO CITY—The Mexican "norteno" band Los Tigres del Norte says it has canceled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony after organizers allegedly asked it not to play the biting political commentary song "La Granja.
Drug raids targeting Mexican cartel nabs 300-plus
Oct 22nd, 2009 - sacbee
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder calls it largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the U.S. - the arrest of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids across the country.
Probe of Mexican drug cartel leads to nearly 1200 arrests in US
Oct 22nd, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington - In a series of recent raids throughout the United States, federal authorities have arrested nearly 1,200 people who they say are connected to one of Mexico's most aggressively expanding and deadly drug trafficking cartels...

Drug Cartels videos from YouTube:

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DPS: Drug cartels targeting school kids
The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued a statewide warning for parents about Mexican drug cartels recruiting Texas schoolchildren.
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Congressman Hal Rogers on Confronting the Drug Cartels
Congressman Rogers' opening statement at the Subcommittee on Homeland Security Appropriations regarding US-Mexican Border Security.
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Drug Cartel
Tuesday 3/11 "Mexican police have arrested a US citizen accused of being a key figure in a major drug cartel based in the border city of Tijuana. Gustavo Rivera Martinez was responsible for the logistics of smuggling drugs to the US and laundering the proceeds, Mexico's interior minister said ...
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Mexican drug cartels take their fight to the internet
Compilation of clips of rival cartels going at each other...en espanol Edited by Hiram Soto

Drug Cartels from WikiPedia:

Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely-managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. Drug cartels are not strictly cartels proper.

Drug cartels operate in many countries throughout Latin America, including Mexico, Brazil, Central America and Colombia, and in Afghanistan and South Asia. Some cartels are even establishing themselves in U.S. cities like New York, Phoenix, Houston, Harlingen, and Los Angeles.