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Published 1/12/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Days before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama is meeting Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a pre-inauguration tradition that comes as Mexico's drug violence escalates and spills into the United States.
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