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Mexicans to Vote Amid Drug-Fueled Violence

By Emily SchmallJun 30th 2010 – 6:37PM
AP

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MEXICO CITY (June 30) -- As drug-trade violence mars the run-up to a brace of elections in Mexico, a troubling figure has resurfaced as the leading mayoral candidate in Mexico's murder capital. Hector "Teto" Murguia Lardizabal, 57, a former mayor of the violent border city Ciudad Juarez, left office in 2007 under a cloud...

Background on Rodolfo Torre Cantu

Rodolfo Torre Cantú (February 14, 1964 – June 28, 2010) was a Mexican physician and politician. He held a number of public offices, such as Federal deputy, Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas and Director-general of the DIF (National System for Integral Family Development) in Ciudad Victoria.

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