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“Obama “outraged” by consulate murders in Mexico”
Reuters ^ | March 14, 2010
Posted on March 14, 2010 9:45:58 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

ADDING to post no. 5:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fgw-mexico-shootings15-2010mar15,0,1698276.story

“3 killed in drug-related shootings in Mexico”

SNIPPET: “A U.S. Consulate worker and his wife, as well as another consulate employee, are dead, officials say. Also, 13 people are slain in Acapulco just as spring break brings an influx of visitors.”

By Tracy Wilkinson
March 14, 2010 | 1:08 p.m.
Reporting from Mexico City

SNIPPET: “Three people associated with the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez have been killed in drive-by shootings, U.S. officials said Sunday. Two of the dead were U.S. citizens, and the third was the Mexican spouse of a consulate employee.”

SNIPPET: “More than 18,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Calderón deployed the army to battle cartels in December 2006.”