Tough talk and fear as Mexican drug violence soars

After a bloody week here in Mexico, the weekend held little reprieve for the nation’s police force.

The second-highest-ranking police officer in the border city of Juarez, across the frontier from El Paso, Texas, was shot dead on Saturday, adding to the string of killings that took place last week.”*

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