Word: mexicans
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...security meltdown has sparked concern in Washington. Mexico's $25 billion- a-year drug-trafficking industry moves at least 75% of the Colombian cocaine that enters the U.S. Law-enforcement officials fear drug violence is spilling into the U.S. and sending more Mexicans across the border illegally. "Whenever something impacts the border as dangerously as this does," says a high-ranking U.S. law-enforcement official, "Americans need to consider it a national-security issue." Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who has pledged to "give no quarter" to the cartels, has deployed 25,000 army troops to battle them...
...commandos hired by the border-based Gulf Cartel because of their military skills. The Zetas recently recruited ex-members of an infamous Guatemalan-army commando unit, the Kaibiles, which is believed to be responsible for the growing use of beheading as a terrorizing tactic. "That militarization of Mexican drug trafficking was a watershed," says Sergio Aguayo, a public-security expert at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. "It raised the violence far beyond what anyone ever imagined...
...called a "bomb." It did damage to the door and a couple of glass panes but an "explosive artifact" was the most threatening term local law enforcement were willing use to describe it. Sears and the 116 other stores in the mall quickly reopened. And yet, the Mexican Army was out in force outside the department store all day, looking stern and watchful yet all the while saying that there was nothing to be worried about. By evening, teenagers and families were again at the mall, many lining up for tickets at the mall's 10-theater multiplex. But there...
...turmoil has spilled from Oaxaca into neighboring Mexican states. In early July, explosions shook installations of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the national oil company, in the state of Guanajuato, just north of this region. At first the government said the cause was poor maintenance but later admitted it was a terrorist act when the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR) - The Popular Revolutionary Army - took responsibility for the incidents and demanded the release of two comrades taken into custody by the army in Oaxaca. The EPR espouses radical Marxist redistribution of wealth and the rights of indigenous peoples; it bases itself...
...level of interest and soccer smarts is very high, and they expect the best when they watch a match. American soccer fans tend to watch English or European leagues on satellite or cable television, but with the signing of Beckham and other players (the Chicago Fire signed popular Mexican forward Cuauhtemoc Blanco this year under the Beckham rule), the MLS hopes increasing revenue will allow the league to become competitive with every league in the world. Says Garber: "The way the rest of the world sees us? A slowly awakening sleeping giant...