Mexican Drug Violence Extends to Wealthy Suburbs

Unlike Americans, Mexicans, and Colombians are concerned about police corruption.

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"increasingly horrific violence spilling into daily life and claiming civilians, while politicians and journalists are either silenced or killed.
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The Zetas control the local police, Pascual said. Other police forces aligned with the Gulf cartel in the fight against them.
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About half of the 750 police officers in Monterrey have been fired on suspicion of links to organized crime.
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In March, two students at the prestigious Monterrey Tech University, Mexico's equivalent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died when they were caught in a gunfight between soldiers and gunmen outside the campus.
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"In Italy, in Colombia, things calmed down among the cartels, among the mafia, when people took to the streets and said, `Enough!'" he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101125/ap_on_re_us/lt_drug_war_mexico_besieged_city

Mexico's modern city succumbs to drug violence
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press
Associated Press writers Mark Walsh in Monterrey and Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City
contributed to this report.
November 25, 2010