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Mexico deploys thousands of troops to crime-torn state Mexico deployed thousands of extra troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday in a bid to tamp down drug cartel violence amid the emergence of vigilante groups.

21 May 2013

More than 20,000 missing under Calderon: report More than 20,000 people have disappeared in Mexico over the past six years of a brutal crackdown on drugs during the government of former president Felipe Calderon.

23 December 2012

Drug war debate heats up after another brutal year Even when a feared drug lord lied dead in a funeral home, Mexican authorities could not prevent the cartel kingpin from slipping away.

14 December 2012

Mexico says may have killed Zetas cartel leader The Mexican navy said late Monday that the leader of the powerful Zetas drug cartel, Heriberto Lazcano, was apparently killed in a shootout near the US border.

10 October 2012