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[bacasper]

This is reminiscent of the murder of the PRI's hand-picked successor some years back.

Killing of Mexican governor front-runner stirs concern for democratic process

08:52 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 29, 2010

By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected] Freelance journalist Lauren Villagran contributed to this report.

CIUDAD JU�REZ, Mexico � Rodolfo Torre, the front-runner in this weekend's gubernatorial election in the violence-plagued northern state of Tamaulipas, was ambushed and killed Monday.

The slayings of Torre and four other people in his party underscored what analysts and officials on both sides of the border said was the pervasive influence of criminal organizations and their determination to decide who governs Mexico.

In a country with so many deaths that it often appears stoic, the killing of Torre drew widespread condemnation from all political parties and from officials on both sides of the border amid fresh fears that the violence in Mexico is threatening the democratic process.

In Mexico City , President Felipe Calder�n spoke to the nation, condemned the assassination and called for unity, saying the killing "was an act not only against a candidate of a political party but against democratic institutions, and it requires a united and firm response from all those who work for democracy."

In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the government "lamented the loss of life."

Torre, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was traveling from his home in Ciudad Victoria to the airport in a Suburban early Monday when gunmen opened fire. The dead included bodyguards and state congressman Enrique Blackmore, also of the PRI. Four people remain hospitalized.

Officials declined to comment about the investigation into Torre's killing, although some said the attack magnified the uncertainty in Tamaulipas, a state bordering Texas in which the Gulf cartel has been battling its former employees, the paramilitary group known as the Zetas, since the beginning of the year.

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[bucheon bum]

At what point do people get a clue and decide to legalize drugs?

[mariposita]

Well CA is apparently putting legalization of MJ on the ballot this November. Although I personally don't smoke, I think it's a good idea so that the government can make money on the taxes (like cigarettes) instead of spending billions trying to keep it out. Legal or not, the people still smoke it. And let's face it...stoners seem to cause less trouble than drunks.

In my current job (not in Korea yet) I have to keep up on the news in Mexico and it's unreal what's happening there. The children are aspiring to be hitmen because they make much more than their parents who work in factories. Instead of cops and robbers they pretend to be cartel leaders battling over turf in the playground.

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[bacasper]

[Fox]

[The Happy Warrior]

[bucheon bum]

[rollo]

Yes the war on drugs has been a disaster fo the U.s. and several othe countries. Just idiocy. the Mexican situation is more more complex than just drugs of course. It is the legacy of bad one party govenment which ignored the poor stole everything that wasnt nailed down. Well when you are governed by thugs you become a thug. Ending the war on drugs would certainly help the situation in Mexico.

[bacasper]

[rollo]

Mexico is a place I truly love. the food the music, the culture the geography, and the people. My father moved there when he retired. But it is a political disaster, soap opera is a mild description. " Poor Mexico so far from heaven so close to the U.s."

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