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Mexico Daily April 13

Today’s news headlines

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Mexico Daily April 12

The day’s headlines from Mexico

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Mexico Daily April 11

Mexican Drug Gang Took Bus Passengers to Recruit Gunmen – this story does beg the question: why kidnap a load of men to recruit them into your drug gang, only to massacre them the next day?

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Mexican journalists get survival tips for covering drug violence

Mexican Journalist David Cilia (center) practices first aid with colleagues during a training course just outside Mexico City

Raymundo Arellano wears a pair of dog tags around his neck. His name, blood type and next of kin have been indented on the silver plates.

“My greatest fear is that I’ll be killed and they’ll bury me somewhere and no one will recognize my remains,” he says.

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Mexico Weekend News April 9 – 10

News headlines over the weekend

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Following the discovery of 59 bodies buried in a number of pits in the northern state of Tamaulipas, those looking for disappeared loved ones are traveling there to see if they can find the remains of people they’re looking for. The finding of the bodies Wednesday happened at the same time that Mexicans were marching in cities across the country in protest to the drug-related violence in Mexico that has claimed more than 35,000 lives. And the Governor of the Bank of Mexico Augustin Carstens says that crime and violence have become “the most important factors inhibiting growth and investment” in Mexico in the past few months.

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MRTV: Mexicans march for peace; more bodies discovered

Thousands of Mexicans marched for peace in Mexico city and other centers around the country on Wednesday to protest the drug-related violence here that has claimed more than 35,000 lives.

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MRTV: Mexicans continue to disappear

A recent visit by the UN Working Group on involuntary or forced disappearances questioned the Mexican army’s current role in President Felipe Calderon’s “war” against organized crime and drug gangs.