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10 Students Gunned Down in Mexico

By Emily SchmallMar 30th 2010 – 7:47PM
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MEXICO CITY (March 30) -- As Mexico closed down for its annual celebration of Holy Week, officials reacted with anger and a degree of helplessness to the slayings of 10 students from a tiny mountainside hamlet who were mowed down by an armed commando on Palm Sunday. The victims, ages 8 to 21, were killed while driving down...

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...

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