The street vendors outside the iconic Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City are doing a roaring trade.
Everything from incense and candles to huge portraits of the Pope are flying off the shelves. Unfortunately for Benedict XVI, they are pictures of his…
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Mexico Church Divided Over Drug Wars
Border Patrol Agents Knowingly Let Drugs In
An anonymous Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, speaking exclusively with The Fix, paints a stark picture of the drug war along the US-Mexico Border. The cartels’ traffickers are punching through our borders without fear, he confirms, sup…
Mexico Faces War Crimes Investigation Over ‘War On Drugs’
[img_assist|nid=29171|title=|desc=A man looks at a van containing the bodies of several men in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday. Mexican authorities found 26 bodies in three vehicles abandoned near a major intersection, officials said.
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The Prohibition of Marijuana Only Seems to Cause More Use
The recent vote defeating California’s Proposition 19, legalizing the use of marijuana regrettably prolongs a drug policy that does not work. Low-level users will continue to be targeted rather than the drug cartels and drug lords who run fr…
Calderon’s Drug War Agenda Stymied By Politics
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has made his war against his country's so-called drug cartels the centerpiece of his presidency. But with prohibition-related violence at record levels and with his single six…
Cops Say Yes to California Marijuana Legalization Measure [FEATURE]
It was a law enforcement trifecta in support of California's Proposition 19 Monday, with a phalanx of police, prosecutors, and judges coming out in support of the marijuana legalization initiative in a pair of…




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