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While the military says it is still investigating the cases separately, the country's top general emerged in a public speech last week with a rare admission of mistakes. "Have there been mistakes? Of course there have been," said Guillermo Galván, who...
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Drug Legalization: Why military hawks are leading drug legalization debate in Latin America
Humanitarian News'If you were to place Felipe Calderon, Juan Manuel Santos, and Otto Perez Molina on the hemisphere's outdated left-right ideological spectrum, all three are well on the right side of the center line. All three are pro-military and all three have...
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Five of the fourteen alleged members of 'Los Zetas' drug cartel presented to the press in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico on February 15, 2012. More than 40,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006,... View Photo »
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Mexico, in the same way to maintain and boost foreign trade, is also generating employment opportunities for all Mexicans
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A version of this post ran on the author's blog, bloggingsbyboz.com. The views expressed are the author's own. If you were to place Felipe Calderon, Juan Manuel Santos, and Otto Perez Molina on the hemisphere's outdated left-right ideological spectrum,...
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“Back in the 1950s all the cantinas in Mexico City were only for men. It’s the embedded machismo culture,” Ramon Peña-Franco, a former media analyst who worked for Mexico’s current leader Felipe Calderon. Men gathered in cantinas to drink and play...
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President Felipe Calderón, who delivered the 2011 Stanford Commencement address, did an excellent job battling the drug cartels. He noted, however, that some of Calderón’s policies had to be adjusted. Publio Adrianza Cerqueira ‘15, who was born in...
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Mexican police escort Felipe Naranjo Sevilla, an alleged member of the Pacific drug cartel , led by Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka 'El Chapo Guzman' (not in picture), to be presented to the press on February 14, 2012 in Mexico City. More than 40,000 people... View Photo »
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This reflects the perception that Mexico United Against Crime shares, which is that concrete actions are not being taken to correct the path of President Felipe Calderon's fight against organized crime
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43, is also wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges, the police said. Mexico has made a concerted effort to take down top leaders of criminal organizations, saying 22 of the 37 most important kingpins have been captured or killed since...
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Honduras, another major transit country that with Guatemala and El Salvador suffers one of the highest murder rates in the world, has never formally considered legalisation. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has said it would not make sense to...
About Felipe Calderon
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Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe kaldeˈɾon]) (born August 18, 1962 in Morelia, Michoacán) is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for one six-year term that will end in 2012 without the possibility of re-election. He is affiliated with the National Action Party... Full Article
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon (R) shakes hands with World Bank Director Caroline Anstey during a G20 Sherpas' meeting at Los Pinos Presidential Palace in Mexico City , February 3, 2012.
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Mexican farmers affected by the drought, hold a sign reading 'Without corn there is no country. Without beans, there isn' t either', as they march in the streets of Mexico City on January 22, 2012, to demand the attention of the government of Felipe Calderon to their problems.
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A Mexican farmer affected by the drought, marches in the streets of Mexico City on January 22, 2012, to demand the attention of the government of Felipe Calderon.
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Investigators inspect a car beside two corpses in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico on February 09, 2012. More than 40,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police to...
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An assault rifle, semiautomatic pistols, ammo and other stuff seized in the arrest of ten alleged members of the drug cartel 'Los Zetas', are presented to the press in Monterrey, Mexico, on February 9, 2012. More than 40,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in...
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