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Mexico drug traffickers corrupt politics

latimes.com
May. 31, 2009
The cult-like La Familia Michoacana has contaminated city halls across one state, federal officials say. It sometimes decides who runs and who doesn't, who lives and who dies. There are few places in Mexico that better illustrate the way traffickers have corrupted the political system from its...
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