Despite army takeover, fear strong in Mexican town

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

CIUDAD MIER, Mexico -- Schoolchildren once again chatter and scamper across the town plaza where drug gang gunmen last year torched the police station and left the remains of a dismembered man.

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