Mexico drug wars spill across the border
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Richard A. Serrano reporting from Lilburn, Ga., and Sam Quinones reporting from San Diego:
The drug violence that has left about 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities. The involvement of the top four Mexican drug-trafficking organizations in distribution and money-laundering on U.S. soil has brought a war once dismissed as a foreign affair to the doorstep of local communities.
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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City