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  • Briefly: Americas

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  • Briefly: Americas

    Manuel Noriega is back in his Panamanian homeland after nearly 22 years, sitting in a prison cell in a country he ruled as a personal fiefdom until U.S. troops invaded and hauled him off to a Florida jail.

  • Woman decapitated in Mexico for web posting

    Police found a woman's decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site.

  • ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Retired Army Gen. Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo waits to be sworn in April 4 as the top cop of Quintana Roo state on Mexico's Caribbean coast. He is a grand-nephew of the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.

    Pancho Villa's nephew takes on cartels

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  • Police patrol the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas, in December. More than 3,000 people were killed there in 2010, and mayhem spread by drug cartels has caused residents to flee and businesses to close. (Associated Press)

    Juarez Ciudad dies as its residents flee

    No one knows how many residents have left the city of 1.4 million since a turf battle over border drug corridors unleashed an unprecedented wave of cartel murders and mayhem.

  • A destroyed home sits abandoned in a low-income neighborhood in Ciudad Mier, Mexico, where a nine-month battle between drug cartels sent most residents fleeing, not to return. Mexicans have been fleeing border towns throughout the Rio Grande Valley. (Associated Press)

    Drug battles create border ghost towns

    Shell casings carpet the road outside a bullet-riddled subdivision on the outskirts of this colonial town in the Rio Grande Valley, abandoned by most of the 6,000 inhabitants following a nine-month battle by warring drug cartels.

  • Briefly

    The Mexican government is telling migrants driving home for the holidays that they should form convoys for their own safety while traveling through Mexico.

  • Illustration: Arizona militia by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    HARTWELL: Obama lawsuit invites fortified state militia

    Arizona has enacted a law that enables state and local police to support fed- eral immigration en- forcement, in a care- fully circumscribed manner. This moderate statute is under vicious attack by the Obama administration and assorted amnesty advocates. Yet Arizona and her sister states in the Southwest could take dramatically stronger actions to bring order to the border. And they would have both history and the Constitution on their side.

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  • Mexican army soldiers guard the perimeter around the regional Attorney General's office after the early morning arrest of former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rohn in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday June 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Francisco Vega)

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