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Drug War Bleeds Into Mexican State Elections

A billboard for Rodolfo Torre Cantu's campaign overlooks a row of hearses waiting to carry the coffins of Torre and his bodyguards from a memorial service in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico. Torre, a candidate for governor in Tamaulipas state, was gunned down June 28 in apparent drug-cartel violence. (NPR)
A billboard for Rodolfo Torre Cantu's campaign overlooks a row of hearses waiting to carry the coffins of Torre and his bodyguards from a memorial service in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico. Torre, a candidate for governor in Tamaulipas state, was gunned down June 28 in apparent drug-cartel violence. (NPR)

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