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By William Kleinknecht
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By Jeanette Winterson
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AP/Bernandino Hernandez
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Hundreds of armed vigilantes took control of a Mexican town in the western coastal state of Guerrero, arresting local cops and conducting searches and handing the accused over to state prosecutors in response to the killing of a vigilante leader Monday.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
Drugs are all anesthesia from pain. The ruthless Mexican cartels crave money, which they make from the Yankee craving for numbness. They sell unfeeling, and we buy it, at tens of billions of dollars and thousands of Mexican lives per year.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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AP / Marco Ugarte
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To what length should governments enable crime in order to catch criminals? That’s the ethical issue raised by a New York Times article that reports DEA agents have laundered millions of dollars in drug proceeds to battle Mexican cartels. More than 40,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006.
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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An hours-long gun battle in the Mexican border town of Matamoros left at least eight people dead, including the leader of a major drug gang and a newspaper reporter. Pictured above, a government spokesman speaking about the violence.
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Flickr / lorenzoavila
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Sunday is election day for several important regional contests in Mexico, but it will also conclude an extraordinarily bloody week that has seen at least several dozen people killed, including a candidate for governor in the border state of Tamaulipas, as rival drug gangs struggle violently for turf and power.
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blueservo.net
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A xenophobic Web site funded by a Texas government grant provides 15 live feeds of “high-crime areas” near the fence between U.S. and Mexico, urging people to go on “virtual stakeouts” from their computers and report “suspicious activity” to authorities.
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