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Mexico: drug gangs target migrants

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Drug-related violence in northern Mexico is so commonplace these days that this week's discovery of 72 bodies at a ranch in the Tamaulipas region close to the American border was immediately assumed to be yet another case of gangs settling scores. But the Mexican government says the victims were migrants who were gunned down after they refused to become drug runners.


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