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Article: Narco-corruption clouds Baja governor race: Tijuana mayor, PAN rival trade drug-tie charges in tight race.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2007
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Byline: Laurence Iliff
Aug. 4--MEXICO CITY -- It was an unusual campaign spot, even in narco-obsessed Mexico.
A battered police commander, captured by presumed drug traffickers, "confesses" to working for the Sinaloa cartel and implicates officials in the Baja California state government, run by President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, or PAN.
The "narco-video" is proof, says Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon in the TV spot, that the current government is corrupt.
"They always blame others for their failures," says the horse track owner, who is running a law-and-order campaign for governor in Baja California -- even as federal ...