NATALIA PARRA

Associated Press Writer
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Silver mine in southern Mexico used to dump bodies

Mexican police on Saturday found an abandoned silver mine scattered with bodies outside a colonial-era town popular with international tourists.

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Swine flu reshapes Mexican tourism

Acapulco's mayor is telling tourists from Mexico City to go home, and residents are stoning their cars. Cancun's hotels are pleading for visitors to fill their empty rooms. The swine flu outbreak is remaking tourism in strange ways in a country heavily dependent on it.

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Mexico: 7 cops, drug gang arrested at cock fight

Soldiers arrested the deputy police chief of a Mexican resort town and six other officers who were allegedly protecting drug cartel members at a cock fight, the Defense Department said Thursday.

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Mexico: Ex-ruling party rebounds in local election

The party that governed Mexico for 71 consecutive years has rebounded in local elections, returns showed on Monday, and a poll had it jumping into the lead for next year's national congressional vote.

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Mexico compensates men for forced sterilizations

State authorities have agreed to pay 490,000 pesos (US$48,000) in compensation to 14 indigenous Mexican men coerced into having vasectomies, an official said.

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Mexico's federal police ask for better weapons

Mexico's federal police need more-powerful weapons to battle heavily armed drug cartels, a senior police official said Wednesday

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Thousands protest violence in Mexico

Thousands of white-clad people marched silently Sunday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer was shot dead.

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Web Video Shows Mexico Man's Beheading

A video purportedly showing the beheading of a drug cartel hit man appeared on video-sharing Web site YouTube, and its makers called on Mexicans to kill more members of the gang.

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John Dumps Heavy Rain on Mexican Coast

Hurricane John pummeled Mexico's resort-studded Pacific Coast with wind and rain Thursday, plotting a course that could take its eye close to land before nicking the tip of Baja California.

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