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Article: Calderon's Unwinnable War; Using troops to fight Mexico's drug lords has pushed the death toll to new highs, testing public patience and support.(Felipe Calderon)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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Byline: Joseph Contreras (With Monica Campbell in Mexico City)
The government official had just turned his SUV in to a narrow alley near his office on May 14 when a red Pontiac cut him off. Next, according to eyewitnesses, three gunmen on motorcycles pulled up alongside and opened fire. The flawless assassination bore all the hallmarks of the murders once carried out in BogotA and Medellin by the henchmen of Colombia's notorious drug lords. But the mayhem this time was in the upscale Mexico City district of CoyoacAn. The victim was Jose Nemesio Lugo, a 55-year-old Justice Department official who, only a month earlier, had been put in charge of the attorney ...