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Documents Show Depth of US Concern over Mexico Violence

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 1:14am

Documents Show Depth of US Concern over Mexico Violence by Alfredo Corchado, Dallas Morning News.

Mexican cartels have operated with “near impunity” in recent years, exerting control over government authorities and entire regions and killing anyone at will, including the massacres of more than 250 migrants headed for the United States in 2010 and 2011, according to newly declassified U.S. government documents.

The findings, detailed in U.S diplomatic cables obtained by the National Security Archive, an independent research organization, further corroborate long-held suspicions that Mexican cartels, often in cahoots with corrupt Mexican authorities, have posed a grave danger to the country’s national security...

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