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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Gunmen Kill 2 Politicians in Mexico

Mar 3, 8:58 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Gunmen killed two members of Mexico's former ruling party Saturday in a mountain city in southern Mexico, local media reported.

Javier Carlos Vargas and Sosimo Hurtado, both active members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were riddled with bullets in the city of Tlapa in southern Guerrero state, the Mexico newspaper El Universal reported. Vargas formerly worked for the city government.

The PRI ruled Mexico for 71 years before former President Vicente Fox of the National Action Party was elected in 2000. Current President Felipe Calderon also belongs to National Action.

FYI - For those of you not familiar with the history of Mexican politics, the PRI remained in power all those years through the use of fear, intimidation, fraud and murder. Vincente Fox's election as president was touted as the first truly democratic election in the history of Mexican politics. -mm

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