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Gangs hold illegal immigrants captive in Mexico

These lawless badlands in the hills east of Tijuana have long teemed with bandits and rapists, but these criminals demanded only phone numbers. They started calling the immigrants' loved ones in Pomona, San Diego and Bakersfield: Send us money or we'll shoot, they said. Ref. Source 7

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Key Mexican official among 43 charged in drug case

A high-ranking law enforcement official from Mexico was one of 43 people charged Friday in a massive federal case aimed at crippling a burgeoning drug organization that grew from the wreckage of the Arellano Felix cartel. Ref. Source 8

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Here is the solution they are going to be looking at in Mexico for the rise in murders and mayhem:

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With 28,000 Killed Since 2006, Movement for Drug Legalization in Mexico Takes Hold

The Mexican government's policy against drug trafficking over the past few years has been to increasingly militarize the conflict with the only tangible result being a skyrocketing death toll. Now a growing movement in Mexico to legalize drugs, particularly marijuana, is taking shape. Four proposals that aim for varying degrees of decriminalization or legalization of drugs are on the docket in Mexico's House of Deputies, and another is circulating in the Senate. Meanwhile, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who was a key US ally in the war on drugs, has backed the legalization of drugs, saying prohibition has failed to reduce violence and corruption. Ref. Source 9

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Fox News is saying that a grave with 72 bodies has been found in Mexico and the Mexican President says it will only get worst. All these things makes it seem to be that drugs will become legal in Mexico but at the same time Cartels will just find something else to do their trade, possibly human trafficking which they are already doing.

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Mexico's Drugs War: A Crime Writer's Perspective
BBC Interview with Paco Ignacio Taibo

"The president of Mexico is mad... he started, 3 years ago, a war against "narco"... 28,000 people have been killed in these 3 years" Ref. Source 5

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"Explain to Us What You Want from Us"-Juárez Newspaper Publishes Editorial Addressing Cartels After Another Reporter Gunned Down

In Mexico, the editors of a local newspaper in the town of Ciudad Juárez have set off a national debate after they published a front-page editorial directly addressing the drug cartels that have terrorized the city. El Diario de Juárez published the piece after a young photographer at the paper was shot dead. "Explain to us what you want from us, so we know what to abide by," they wrote. "You are at this time the de facto authorities in this city because the legal authorities have not been able to stop our colleagues from falling." Ref. Source 2

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Narcoland: Journalist Braves Death Threats to Reveal Ties Between Mexican Government & Drug Cartels: Video

Anabel Hernández has been described as one of the most courageous journalists in Mexico. In 2010, she published a groundbreaking book linking top Mexican governmental officials to the world's most powerful drug cartels. Ref. Source 5