President Calderon has demanded a crackdown on drugs in the US after cartel "terrorists" torched an upmarket casino in Mexico, killing 52 people.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón will press President Barack Obama to crack down on US drug consumption when they meet on Thursday.
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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/ 16 February 2008
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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/ 6 November 2007
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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/ 5 November 2007
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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/ 2 November 2007
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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/ 2 November 2007
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.