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Federal police escort a group of prisoners toward a plane bound for an undisclosed location at the international aiport in Morelia, Mexico on August 21, 2012. Some 200 inmates serving federal sentences were transferred to federal prisons during an operation by the Secretary of Public Security (SSP), local media reported.
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People try to recover things that are being washed away by the flood in Boca Del Rio on the outskirts of Veracruz on Thursday, August 9, 2012. Tropical Storm Ernesto skirted the coast of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, sending wind gusts and showers across the state of Veracruz, home to some of Mexico's busiest ports and oil installations. Read the full story.
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Coconut vendors try to recover their goods after they were caught unprepared when high waves dragged their beach stalls into the sea in Veracruz, Mexico, Thursday.
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Residents walk past swaying palm trees following the passing of Hurricane Ernesto in Mahahual, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on Aug. 8.
Hurricane Ernesto was downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall on Aug. 8, 2012. The storm has top sustained winds of 45 miles per hour, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read More
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A damaged gas station stands after the passing of tropical storm Ernesto in Mahahual, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on Aug. 8.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto moves west over land in the Yucatan peninsula on Aug. 8 in Mexico.
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The unfinished tunnel discovered by authorities in Tijuana designed to smuggle drugs into the United States.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Thursday that an approximately 220-yard passage, pictured at right, was lit and ventilated. It began under a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana and did not cross the border into San Diego.
AP's report on the incomplete tunnel from Tijuana also mentions another found recently in Arizona:
Elsewhere, a 240-yard completed passage was discovered less than a week ago near Yuma, Ariz. U.S. authorities say that tunnel was operational.
As U.S. authorities heighten enforcement on land, tunnels have become an increasingly common way to smuggle enormous loads of marijuana into the country. More than 70 passages have been found on the border since October 2008, surpassing the number of discoveries in the previous six years.
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This image provided by the US Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA) on Thursday shows the US Entrance to a cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico that was discovered through a probe conducted by the DEA. The DEA on Thursday announced the details of a 240-yard (219m)passageway that was equipped with lighting and ventilation. US Justice Department officials say the sophisticated tunnel was used to transport drugs from Mexico to the commercial building on the Arizona side. Authorities said the investigation also included arrests and drug seizures.
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The US Entrance to a cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico.
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The cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico.
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DEA image of 39 pounds(14.5kg) of methamphetamines recovered by officials from a cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico.
The Caravan Super Tarin traveling wrestling show brings Mexico's Lucha Libre wrestling to the capital's poorest neighborhoods, orphanages and prisons, giving free performances to those who don't have the money to buy a $22 ticket to see a professional wrestling event at one of Mexico City's big arenas.
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Mexican Lucha Libre wrestlers, El Dolar and Dement Extreme perform during a Caravan Super Tarin traveling wrestling show on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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Fans squeeze between two walls to watch a Caravan Super Tarin traveling wrestling show on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling masks are attached with clothespins to a wire, on display for sale in a school yard during a wrestling show in Mexico City.
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Mexican Lucha Libre wrestlers Brazo de Plata Junior, left, and Shadow perform outside the ring in a poor downtown neighborhood in Mexico City.
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Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler Mixteco Jr., hugs an elderly woman during a Caravan Super Tarin traveling wrestling show on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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An anti-Institutional Revolutionary Party, or anti-PRI, protester from the opposition movement Yosoy132 gives a flower to a policeman during a demonstration in Cancun on July 7, 2012. Thousands of protesters marched through the Mexican capital on Saturday against President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him of buying votes and paying off TV networks for support. The demonstrators, including students, leftists, anarchists and union members, shouted slogans criticizing PRI and the electoral authority.
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An employee sprays a farm under quarantine following a bird flu outbreak in Tepatitlan, Jalisco State, Mexico on Wednesday. Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry. The emergency declaration included provisions for quarantine, slaughter, vaccination, and the destruction of infected products.
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Chickens remain in their cages in a farm under quarantine in Tepatitlan, Jalisco State, Mexico.
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Mexico's Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries, & Nutrition veterinarian Adolfo Ortiz works in a mobile laboratory in Guadalajara.
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View of a sanitary checkpoint (including cardboard cutout of a flag-waver) installed by the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries, & Nutrition following a bird flu outbreak in Tepatitlan, Jalisco State.
Reuters reports that an outbreak of avian flu has killed at least 870,000 poultry birds in Mexico:
"The virus has never been out of control. It is localized in two places in Jalisco and up until now there is no evidence that it is anywhere else," the official said, asking not be named.
As a cautionary measure, authorities declared a national animal health emergency on Monday to help prevent the disease's spread to other parts of Mexico or farther. The ministry has ordered vaccinations from Asia and is also developing their own drugs domestically to combat the flu.
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Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), greets supporters at his party's headquarters in Mexico City as exit poll results begin to come in for general elections in Mexico early Monday, July 2, 2012.
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Supporters of Enrique Pena Nieto gather at PRI headquarters in Mexico City as exit poll results begin to come in on July 1, 2012.
Reuters reports from MEXICO CITY — The party that ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century claimed victory in a presidential election on Sunday as a senior election official said the party's candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, held an irreversible lead over his rivals. President Felipe Calderon congratulated him on his win.
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Pena Nieto, on track to return his once long-dominant opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power, had between 37.9 and 38.55 percent of the vote, ahead of second-placed leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who had between 30.9 and 31.86 percent of the vote. Read the full story.
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Supporters of Enrique Pena Nieto hold newspapers with his picture on the front page, at the party's headquarters in Mexico City on July 1, 2012.
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Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) react after exit polls showed him to be in second place, in Mexico City on July 1, 2012.
Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is leading in the polls for president in Mexico. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands in Los Cabos, Mexico, at the G20 summit on June 18.
U.S President Barack Obama met Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit to discuss differences between the two countries on Syria and Iran.
"We agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war," Obama told reporters.
"From my point of view, we have found many common points on this issue" of Syria, Putin said, adding the two sides would continue discussions.
-- Reuters
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Migrants from Central America wait for a freight train after taking part in a protest in Lecheria, in Tultitlan, Mexico on May 17, 2012.
A group of migrants from Central America took part in a protest Thursday to demand that the Mexican government stop kidnappings, robberies and crimes committed by organised criminal groups against migrants.
Child actors shame Mexico's politicians with mockumentary
More than 200 illegal immigrants have been killed in Mexico in the last 10 months, according to the Casa del Migrante in Saltillo, northern Mexico, which coordinates several shelters for the homeless run by the Catholic Church.
Mexico's drug war: No sign of 'light at the end of the tunnel'
Some 140,000 Central Americans, according to government figures, enter Mexico illegally each year in the hope of reaching the northern border to cross into the United States.
-- Reuters and Agence France Presse contributed to this report
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A Central American immigrant waits for a chance to board a train in Tultitlan on May 17, 2012.
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Honduran Reina Jackeline, who is six months pregnat, rests near a passing train in Tultitlan on May 17, 2012.
Violence, including the discovery of 49 mutilated bodies near the U.S. border, is reaching new levels in the ongoing drug war in Mexico. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
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Photographers Guillermo Luna Varela, left, and Gabriel Huge, right, were among four people found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal in Veracruz, Mexico on Thursday, May 3, 2012. A fellow journalist said Luna was Huge's nephew.
Three photojournalists who worked the perilous crime beat in Mexico's violence-torn Veracruz state were among four people found dismembered and dumped in plastic bags in a canal Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was found dead in her home in the state capital.
The targeting of sources of independent information by two warring drug cartels threatens to add Veracruz to the growing list of Mexican states where fear snuffs out reporting on the drug war.
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Regina Martinez was found dead in the bathroom of her house in Xalapa on April 28, 2012.
The bodies of photographers Guillermo Luna, Gabriel Huge and Esteban Rodriguez were discovered in the town of Boca del Rio along with that of Luna's girlfriend, Irasema Becerra.
Regina Martinez, a correspondent for the national magazine Proceso, was found dead in her bathroom on Saturday with signs she had been beaten and strangled.
The London-based press freedom group Article 19 said in a report last year that Luna, Varela and Rodriguez were among 13 Veracruz journalists who had fled their homes because of crime-related threats.
In total, more than 70 journalists have been murdered in Mexico in the last decade, according to the government-funded National Human Rights Commission. The latest grisly discovery came on World Press Freedom Day.
-- The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report
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Police remove from a canal plastic bags containing the dismembered bodies of four people in Boca del Rio, Veracruz, on May 3, 2012. The fourth victim was Guillermo Luna's girlfriend, Irasema Becerra, state prosecutors said.
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Incandescent materials, ashes and smoke are spewed from the Popocatepetl Volcano in Santiago Xalitzintla, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on April 26, 2012.
Residents at the foot of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano no longer sleep soundly since the towering mountain roared back into action two weeks ago, spewing out a hail of rocks, steam and ashes, Agence France Presse reports.
The volcano, Mexico's second highest peak at 5,452 meters, started rumbling and spurting high clouds of ash and steam on April 13, provoking the authorities to raise the alert to level five on a seven-point scale.
A ghostly image captured by a NASA satellite, below, shows the erupting volcano at night, OurAmazingPlanet.com reports. It's a thermal image, snapped at 10:53 p.m. local time on Wednesday. The lighter areas are warmer, the darker areas cooler. The white dot in the center of the image is a hotspot within the volcano's summit crater.
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NASA's Terra satellite captured this nighttime view of the Popocatépetl volcano eruption at 10:53 p.m. local time (04:53 Universal Time) on April 25, 2012.
Take a look at more photos of the Popocatepetl volcano on PhotoBlog.
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