Article: Tijuana Kidnappers Targeting Doctors

NOAH ADAMS
NPR All Things Considered
05-28-2008
Tijuana Kidnappers Targeting Doctors

Host: NOAH ADAMS
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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Doctors have become targets in drug violence in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. In the last few months, 20 have been kidnapped. Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, has sent hundreds of federal police and soldiers to Tijuana.

But as Amy Isackson reports now from member station KPPS in San Diego, doctors say more must be done to end the violence.

AMY ISACKSON: Dozens of doctors in Tijuana recently cancelled their morning rounds. Instead, they gathered on the steps at the city's General Hospital. Dressed in their starch white coats, ...

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