A $20 million virtual fence on the US-Mexico border has been shut down after two months for failing to work.
From the AP (via Google News):
The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal [...]

According to a video news report from National Geographic, Mexicans spent $2.58 billion in bribes in 2007.
Based on a report from Transparencia Mexican (the Mexico Chapter of Transparency International), Mexicans paid 197 million bribes in 2007, up from the 115 million bribes paid in 2005.
See the video report from National Geographic here.
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The violence and killing in Mexico between rival drug cartels is has shown no signs of easing in the first three months of the year.
From the International Herald Tribune:
A turf war between drug cartels has claimed more than 210 lives in the first three months of this year, more than twice the number of homicides [...]

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the border fence between the US and Mexico as being built in patchwork fashion.
From the CS Monitor:
After driving 10 miles along the expanded US-Mexican border fence near her farm, Dawn Garner offers her dour assessment: “Anyone can plainly see this wouldn’t stop a flea, let alone a migrant or [...]

Drug trafficking gangs in Mexico are donating money to local area churches in an attempt to win over the population.
From Reuters:
olent drug gangs in Mexico, which kill thousands of people a year, fund the building of churches in impoverished villages to try to win over locals, a senior Catholic bishop said.”They are very generous,” Bishop [...]

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the building and impact of the border fence between the US and Mexico.
From the Christian Science Monitor:
The triple-and double-layered fence here in Yuma is the kind of barrier that US lawmakers – and most Americans – imagined when the [...]

The Government of Mexico has sent more than 2,500 troops to the border shared with the United States to curb the violence stemming from the drug trade.
From the AP:
The Mexican government said Thursday it has sent more than 2,500 soldiers and federal police to curb soaring violence in a border state across from Texas and [...]

In a continuing sign of the worsening drug trade in Mexico, a police chief is seeking asylum in the United States due to the lack of safety he feels in the country.
From the AP:
Emilio Perez, the chief of Palomas, Mexico, showed up at the international port of entry in Columbus, N.M., late Tuesday, saying his [...]

Newsweek reports on the growing trend in the kidnap and ransom market of Americans being kidnapped and taken into Mexico to be held on ransom.
From Newsweek:
Kidnappings of American residents in the Tijuana area south of San Diego have accelerated dramatically since Roberto’s 2005 abduction. There were 11 such incidents in 2006 and 26 in 2007. [...]

A deadly bomb that exploded last week was originally meant for a police officials, authorities in Mexico announced.
The bomb exploded while still in the hands of Juan Manuel Meza Campos, who was attempting to place the bomb in a parking lot filled with police officers automobiles.
From the New York Times:
The blast unsettled the residents of [...]