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Mexico

In Mexico: Beyond single-party rule
…Calderón had responded to the drug cartels by launching widespread security operations that grew to involve tens of thousands of members of the military. As the violence increased and the number of those killed mounted (by September 2011 surpassing a total of 47,000 related deaths since the Calderón administration began…
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Miami

In Griselda Blanco
…central figure in the violent drug wars in Miami in the 1970s and ’80s.
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