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October 29, 2010

Mexican Youths Protest Drug Killings
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In Mexico, hundreds of students rallied in the capital Mexico City
Thursday to protest a wave of drug-linked killings targeting young
people. Some forty-two youths have been killed in four recent attacks.
Protest leader Sergio Leyva said Mexican drug cartels have committed
crimes with impunity.

Sergio Leyva: "We can be killed, either by the government or by the drug
traffickers. This is the greatest dilemma that we have. It cannot be
possible that in six days forty-two young people have been killed. In
January of this year, fifteen died in [Ciudad Juárez], and the only
thing the government offered us was a tithe of justice with impunity."



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