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Experts: Americans Aren't Safe in Mexican Drug Wars

By Emily SchmallMar 16th 2010 – 6:18PM
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MEXICO CITY (March 16) -- The killing Sunday of three people connected to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez undermines the popular notion that Americans are immune to the Mexican drug war, observers say. Two of the victims, a consular employee and her husband, were returning home to El Paso, Texas, from a birthday party...

Trouble in Paradise for Baja's American Expatriates

By Sphere StaffDec 14th 2009 – 5:41PM
AP

AP

(Dec. 14) -- Just a decade ago, Baja California struck many Americans as a kind of retirement paradise. But in recent years, the Los Angeles Times reported, escalating crime throughout the peninsula has made some expatriates wonder whether they are paying too high a price after all for their ocean views and gated...

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