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The Gulf cartel, which dominates trafficking from northeastern Mexico into Central America and has cells across the United States, is pitted against its former armed wing, the Zetas, in an unrelenting turf war.
That violence has spread into Mexico's richest city of Monterrey near the Texas border, in a escalation of the drug war that worries foreign investors with factories in the area.
More than 31
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Drug gangs blocked roads and set fire to gas stations in the colonial city of Morelia in western Mexico on Friday evening after soldiers captured a local drug gang leader, state news agency Notimex said.
Calderon's national security chief Alejandro Poire lauded Cardenas' killing as a major success in weakening the cartels that generate up to $40 billion a year in narcotics sales in the United States.
"Today
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But drug trade specialists warned the violence will continue as long as Mexico fails to reform the corrupt judicial
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"This is unfortunately going to fuel the spiraling violence because rivals will try to take advantage of the Gulf cartel's weakened state
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Calderon has pledged reform but has failed to get initiatives through a divided Congress, focusing mainly on army-led operations that have led to the capture or killing of several top drug lords since late last year.
But the Zetas
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