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Security & Strategic Review December 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: As toll hits new high, a strange 'battle' in Michoacán
First came what appeared to be good news: the government claimed to
have 'decapitated' the Familia Michoacana cartel by killing one of its top
leaders in a major armed clash. Then came a sobering reality check: the number
of drug-war fatalities had risen to a new high in 2010 and Mexico's leading
business and civic organisations vented their frustration at the incongruence
between official rhetoric and actual results in the area of public
security.
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