Mexico vote goes ahead despite candidate slain by drug cartels

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- Drug cartels fund a tenth of Mexico's economy. They have infiltrated many local and state police forces and staged assaults on army bases. Now they're violently inserting themselves into politics, killing the leading candidate for governor of a northern state only days before Sunday's elections in 12 states.

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