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State Police Chief Francisco Fernandez was ambushed in a March 6 attack that killed his driver, Jose de la Luz Perez Mayo, and left him seriously wounded but somehow alive after more than 150 shots were fired at him.
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Mexico's drug cartels are returning fire in a fierce struggle against the new government of President Felipe Calderon, who's adopted aggressive tactics to control his country's widespread drug violence.
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Soldiers in combat uniform on March 17, 2007, formed a ring around the large state police headquarters complex in Villahermosa, Mexico because of allegations that corrupt police work in tandem here with the Gulf and Sinaloa drug cartels.
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A blindfolded, bloodied, severed head of a man with a mustache was lobbed at the guard post of the state police headquarters in Villahermosa, Mexico on March 14, 2007.
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The message to the police is to back off investigations. It was another sign that Mexico's drug cartels are fighting throughout the country in an increasingly gruesome war to control the trade.
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A blindfolded, bloodied, severed head of a man with a mustache was another sign that Mexico's drug cartels, whose influence used to be confined largely to regions near the U.S. border, are fighting throughout the country.
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A man removes the blindfolded, bloodied, severed head of a man with a mustache was lobbed at the guard post of the state police headquarters in Villahermosa, Mexico, on March 14, 2007.
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The grotesque headless body of the small time drug dealer and alleged police informant was found hours later across the state line in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state.
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Soldiers in combat uniform on March 17, 2007, formed a ring around the large state police headquarters complex in Villahermosa, Mexico because of allegations that corrupt police work in tandem here with the Gulf and Sinaloa drug cartels.
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