Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: Archbishop's niece killed in Veracruz
The kidnapping and murder of Karina Reyes Luna, a niece of Hipólito Reyes, the archbishop of Xalapa, shocked middle-class Mexicans. Academics who research the changing trends in violent crime in Mexico suggest that the increase in kidnapping is a by-product of the government's offensive against organised crime. Some academics claim that as drug-related crime has become more dangerous for gangsters, violent gangsters have switched to kidnapping.
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