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added 2007 Sat Jun 9 19:49:42 by berkeley
"The idea that drug dealers and the people close to them are the only people caught up in the violence we are living in Mexico is a silly lie made up to keep the population calm," Sarmiento wrote.
added 2007 Sun May 20 22:22:37 by berkeley
Before the 1990s, groups based in the Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa dominated Mexico's drug trade. The country's traffickers were becoming cash-rich as Colombian cartels increasingly ceded key smuggling routes into the U.S. to them.
added 2007 Fri Mar 23 19:25:38 by populist
The war between Mexico's drug cartels and the state intensified this week, with a death toll of nine police officers and others this week.