balloon-juice.com - 2/12/2009
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From a piece in the WSJ about a commission of former Latin American Heads of State stating the drug war has failed and that massive changes are necessary, the following quote :
U.S. law-enforcement officials—as well as some of their counterparts in Mexico—say the explosion in ...
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