Mexico's Drug Prohibition War: Mexican Mayor Shot to Death – Third One in a Week

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Mayor Luis Jiminez Mata, of Santiago Amoltepec, was shot to death by prohibition-created drug traffickers when he was visiting the state capital of Oaxaca. He is the third municipal leader to be killed in a week and in 2011.

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