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August 30, 2010

Mexican Mayor Killed in Border State
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In Mexico, suspected drug traffickers have assassinated the mayor of a
city in the border state of Tamaulipas. Marco Antonio Leal was shot
Sunday while driving through the rural municipality of Hidalgo. The
mayor’s young daughter was injured in the attack. Leal is the second
mayor in Mexico to be assassinated in the past month. The state of
Tamaulipas, which borders Texas, is where the bodies of seventy-two
murdered migrant workers were found last week. Meanwhile, on Friday two
car bombs exploded in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas. One of
the bombs exploded outside the studio of Televisa, Mexico’s leading
television network. More than 28,000 people have died in drug violence
since Mexican President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006.



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