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Weekly Report - 27 September 2005
MEXICO: Leaders of antidrugs drive killed in crash
The government's México Seguro offensive against the warring drug gangs suffered a blow last week when the public security minister, the chief of the largest federal police force and several top security officials were killed in a helicopter crash. Though at least two of the officials had received death threats the government insists that the crash was an accident.
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