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...just U.S. weapons that are moving south. Many of the thugs being picked up by the military are from the Barrio Azteca gang, which is based in El Paso but whose members are recruited to work for La Línea in Juárez. That makes it all the more urgent for U.S. law enforcement to sap Barrio Azteca's strength on the U.S. side. Six Azteca bosses were recently convicted in El Paso on federal racketeering charges. Sheriff Wiles, a Democrat, believes that this attention to localized border strategies is deepening under the Obama Administration and Napolitano, who was governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bloody Border: Mexico's Drug Wars | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...line of defense for the U.S., just as it's equally important that U.S. border police be better able to stop the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico. The U.S. also needs to be able to share more information with Mexico - like intelligence about [U.S.-based] gangs like Barrio Azteca, whose members are used by the Mexican drug cartels to commit so much of the violence here. (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juarez: Running the Most Dangerous City in the Americas | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...pieces—since she is managing the show from backstage she won’t be able to spare the hour and a half necessary to create the traditional updo and makeup required of a Ballet Folklórico dancer—she will perform in the Danza Azteca piece “El Águila.” Wearing feathers and dancing as an eagle as a performance for the Aztec gods she will take part in a “tradition carried over for generations and generations...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marisol Pineda '08 | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

Five dancers from Danza Azteca, a Jamaica Plain-based group, led the traditional Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Schoyer, | Title: Local Latinos Celebrate El DIa de los Muertos | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

Based in NBC's Rockefeller Center studio in New York, Malin and co-anchor Don Criqui will provide pre-game and half-time analysis of the action in Mexico City's Azteca Stadium...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Byerly Hall Administrator to Call Play For NBC in Sunday World Cup Final | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

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