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...many areas of Mexican life. With the cartels estimated to make $30 billion from smuggling narcotics, the U.S. Treasury has named dozens of Mexican companies, from dairy farms to clothing chains, as money launderers. In November, the owner of a third-division soccer club, the Mapaches of Michoacán state, was charged with drug trafficking. Crime kingpins are also alleged to finance popular Mexican singers, who croon about the gangsters' exploits...
...Punit N. Shah ’12, who served as one of Vilsack’s student liaisons at the IOP, said the study group focused on analyzing the risks implicit in adopting certain political actions or policies...
...little surprise that Batista, who has worked as an antikidnapping instructor and kidnapping-release negotiator all over Mexico, was taken in Coahuila. Just as Mexico's powerful drug cartels have lashed out with an insurgency against President Felipe Calderón's anti-narco offensive - Mexico has had more than 5,000 drug-related murders this year, double last year's record - kidnapping bosses in Coahuila, on the border with Texas, are fighting back against the state government's antiabduction crusade. Batista was a consultant to Enrique Martinez, who was Coahuila's governor from 1999 to 2005, and he greatly...
...narcotraffickers battle over turf and trade, the unpaid Red Cross volunteers who come to the aid of the wounded are under increasing pressure. Culiacán is home to some of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins, and thugs fight daily with Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and homemade bombs. About 3,000 soldiers and federal agents patrol the city in Hummers and helicopters, but the job of picking up the maimed is left entirely to the Red Cross--mostly medical students in their teens and 20s. The local government donates to the group but provides no emergency service...
Obesity tax n.-- A 15% tax on sweetened sodas proposed by New York Governor David Paterson to help close the state's nearly $15 billion budget deficit...