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362. Mere reality

By Joel Jacobsen

On Monday morning in Tijuana, 12 bodies were found piled up on the street.  The grisly discovery capped four days of violence that has shaken the sprawling Tijuana metropolitan area and forced Baja California state officials to plead for more federal police to help control the city. Police on Monday also discovered four bodies in a vacant lot in eastern Tijuana. They had been carefully arranged in a circle and, like other such scenes, carried a narco-message.That's from the LA Times, which adds that "[a]t least 380 people have been killed this year in Tijuana, most of them victims of organized crime, according to Baja California Atty. Gen. Rommel Moreno Manjarrez's office."(Excuse me.  Rommel?)All of them, of course, were victims of America's war on drugs...continue to full post

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