Mayor killed in Mexico, sixth this year

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Mayor killed in Mexico, sixth this year
Posted Thu Sep 9, 2010 1:19pm AEST


An armed gang stormed a municipal building and shot dead a mayor in north-eastern Mexico, in the sixth killing of a mayor this year, a political official said Wednesday.

The attack occurred in San Luis Potosi state near the border with the drug violence-wracked border state of Tamaulipas, where a governor was gunned down before July elections and 72 migrants were found massacred last month.

Alexander Lopez, mayor of El Naranjo town, was killed Wednesday afternoon, according to an official, declining to be named, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the country's main opposition and Lopez's party.

San Luis Potosi is one of the least-affected states in a wave of violent crime which has left more than 28,000 dead since president Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown in 2006, dispatching 50,000 soldiers to aid police.

"The only danger in El Naranjo was its proximity to Tamaulipas state," the official said.

A turf war between the powerful Gulf cartel and its former hitmen the Zetas is blamed for a spike in violence in northeastern areas in recent months. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/09/3007213.htm?section=world

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1. A positive start to counter the drug cartels is for Californians to pass Prop 19

[marmar]

2. Agreed.

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3. Yes

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4. Pot is the cartel's major export to the US

The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy … says that more than 60 percent of the profits reaped by Mexican drug lords are derived from the exportation and sale of cannabis to the American market.

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5. Be a Locavor

Support your local grower. Everyone will benefit in the long run.:smoke: