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76 arrested in drug ring traced to US from Mexico

By Marc Lacey Nov. 1, 2011

PHOENIX — Law enforcement officials on Monday announced the breakup of a massive drug-smuggling ring that used lookouts on hilltops in southern Arizona to move huge quantities of marijuana and other drugs across the Mexican border to users throughout the United States.

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Birthright citizenship looms as next immigration battle

By Marc Lacey Jan. 5, 2011

NOGALES, Ariz. —Of the 50 or so women bused to this border town on a recent morning to be deported back to Mexico, Inez Vasquez, eight months pregnant, stood out.

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In search for killers in Mexico, focus on a cross-border drug gang

By Marc Lacey Mar. 19, 2010

MEXICO CITY — They carry both U.S. passports and high-caliber weapons, making them the perfect cross-border assassins. They confuse the authorities by using a coded language that blends English, Spanish and the Aztecs’ ancient tongue of Nahuatl. The threat of prison is no big fear for members of the Barrio Azteca street gang, because they consider the cellblock to be home.

World and Nation

Despite readiness for quake, Chile struggles as rescue efforts continue

By Alexei Barrionuevo and Marc Lacey Mar. 2, 2010

ANGOL, Chile — Chile’s government, after initially waving off outside aid, changed course Monday as the devastation from the powerful earthquake sunk in and the nation’s pressing needs became clear.

World and Nation

18 Are Killed at MexicanDrug Rehab Center

By Marc Lacey Sep. 4, 2009

As many as a dozen masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed into a drug rehabilitation center in this violent border city on Wednesday night, lined up recovering drug addicts and alcoholics against a wall and opened fire at point-blank range, killing 18 people.

World and Nation

Mexico Objects to China’s Stringent Quarantines

By Marc Lacey and Andrew Jacobs May. 5, 2009

Medical experts are calling the new influenza virus A (H1N1), but for many Mexicans it is simply a scarlet A.

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Across Globe, Food Shortages Prompt Rising Social Unrest

By Marc Lacey Apr. 18, 2008

Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing.

World and Nation

Cuban Immigrants Go Through Mexico, Avoid U.S. Coast Guard

By Marc Lacey Oct. 16, 2007

Cubans are migrating to the United States in the greatest numbers in over a decade, and for most of them the new way to get north is first to head west –to Mexico – in a convoluted route that avoids the U.S. Coast Guard.

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