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Mexico approves law to aid victims of narco violence

The Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that will recognize, protect and provide aid to victims of crimes stemming from the gang-related drug wars that have engulfed the country for nearly the last six years.

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Mexico: counterinsurgency general assassinated

After dodging prison terms for murdering campesinos and protecting drug lords, US-trained Gen. Acosta Chaparro is gunned down by an unknown assailant at a Mexico City auto shop.

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Mexico: study blames NAFTA in obesity epidemic

Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, Mexico’s struggle with obesity and its related life-threatening problems—diabetes, stroke, heart disease—has become “Americanized,” a new study reports.

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Juárez drug cartel leader gets life in US consulate killings

JosĂ© Antonio Acosta Hernández AKA “El Diego,” purported leader of La Linea criminal organization, was sentenced to 10 life terms in El Paso after pleading guilty to the slayings of three people tied to the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.

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Mexico violence to top CalderĂłn’s final NAFTA summit

Mexico’s President Felipe CalderĂłn, constitutionally barred from re-election, will meet with Obama in the White House this week for his final NAFTA summit—with his country’s bloody cartel wars topping the security agenda.

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Mexico: two more activists are murdered

Transgender activist Agnes Torres Sulca and anti-mining activist Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez are the latest victims of a wave of violence that seems to target grassroots political organizers.

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Mexico: government apologizes in 2002 rape case

Mexican governance secretary Alejandro Poiré formally apologized to indigenous campesina Inés Fernández for her rape by three Mexican soldiers in 2002. Fernández then denounced the government.