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Militarizing Mexico’s Drug War

More than 1,000 police officers, soldiers and members of enemy cartels have been killed this year as President Calderon has turned up the heat

By John Gibler

“In the helicopter is where they began to beat us,” recalls Sara, a 17-year-old who was released on May 16 after a week in military detention. (Her name has been changed to protect her identity.) “They threw me really hard into the helicopter,” she says. “They kicked me all over my body. Then one got on top of me; I could… return to article

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