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Another day of MURDER & MAYHEM in MEXICO!:

"ACAPULCO, Mexico � Four men with their hands and feet tied and heads covered in duct tape were thrown 600 feet to their deaths from a bridge Friday, authorities said as Mexico's increasingly bloody drug battles reached a new level of cruelty and intimidation."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110219/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico

ALERT for AMERICANS in Mexico!!!:

"MEXICO CITY � The U.S. government has barred its employees from traveling to the Mexican state where two U.S. federal agents were shot this week.

An alert issued Thursday by the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey says American citizens also are urged not to travel to San Luis Potosi state.

The two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were attacked Tuesday on a highway in the state. One was killed and the other wounded.

The consulate also says U.S. citizens should "maintain a heightened sense of alert" while traveling in four central Mexico states surrounding San Luis Potosi.

The warning includes the popular tourist cities of Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. The latter is a picturesque town that is home to many U.S. expatriates and retirees."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110218/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_ice_agents_shot

NARCO REFUGEES!!!

"TIERRAS COLORADAS, Mexico (Reuters) � Just after Christmas, drug hitmen rolled into the isolated village of Tierras Coloradas and burned it down, leaving more than 150 people, mostly children, homeless in the raw mountain winter."

"No official numbers exist, but the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, or IDMC, estimates 115,000 people have been displaced by Mexico's drug violence.

Another 115,000 or more have fled and slipped into the United States, IDMC says. Some leave and then move back, creating a floating population that is hard to track."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110218/wl_nm/us_mexico_drugs

"WASHINGTON (AFP) � US border patrol agents seized 87 percent more cocaine and 108 percent more heroin in fiscal year 2010 that ended on October 1 compared to the year before, a report said Wednesday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110216/pl_afp/mexicocrimedrugsus

RIOTS in Oaxaca-AGAIN!:

"OAXACA, Mexico � Police fired tear gas and clashed for several hours Tuesday with teachers protesting a visit by President Felipe Calderon to the colonial city of Oaxaca.

The protests are reminiscent of unrest that paralyzed the southern city for five months in 2006 and left at least a dozen people dead."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_oaxaca_protests