Judge orders alleged kingpin ‘La Barbie’ held (AP)
AP – A judge has ordered a U.S.-born suspected drug lord known as “La Barbie” held for 40 days pending an investigation into organized crime and other possible charges, authorities announced Saturday.
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Explosion on Gulf of Mexico oil platform sends crew into sea (AFP)
AFP – An oil platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to dive into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster.
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Mexico confirms 2nd migrant survived massacre (AP)
AP – A second migrant survived the massacre of 72 Central and South Americans near the border with the U.S., Mexican authorities confirmed Wednesday, and they said he has given information that helped their investigation.
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Video: Captured Mexican drug lord knew top capos (AP)
AP – A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico’s most savage assassins says he personally knew the country’s top drug lords, shipped cocaine from Colombia through Panama and had a film made about his exploits.
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Mexico captures reported drug lord ‘The Barbie’ (AP)
AP – A Texas-born fugitive known as “the Barbie” who allegedly led a violent smuggling network grinned as he was paraded in handcuffs before reporters on Tuesday — the third suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months in a coup for President Felipe Calderon’s war on cartels.
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BP’s internal probe faults its own engineers: report (Reuters)
Reuters – BP Plc’s internal probe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has placed some of the blame on mistakes by its engineers while finishing the deep sea oil well, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the report.
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Priest among missing 5 years after Katrina (AP)
AP – The night sky heaved like a living thing as Fire Chief Joe Perez took another slow cruise in the rescue truck down the two-lane road snaking across this town in the last patch of marsh standing between New Orleans and an angry Gulf of Mexico.
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Investigator disappears during Mexico deaths probe (AFP)
AFP – An official probing the massacre of 72 migrants in northeast Mexico has gone missing along with a police officer as more bodies were identified and two car bombs shook the region.
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Car bomb explodes in Mexico where 72 bodies found (AP)
AP – A car exploded early Friday in front of the offices of a major Mexican television station in a northern state where officials are investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants.
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Mexican president strongly condemns migrant massacre (AFP)
AFP – Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday strongly condemned the massacre of 72 people, believed to be migrants who refused to work as hitmen for drug traffickers.
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