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Bag’s Take-Away:
CNN shows what happens when one is shot to death in a car.
(photo credit: Shaul Schwarz/Reportage by Getty Images caption: Juarez was widely regarded as the world’s most dangerous city in 2010 and was called the second-most dangerous in 2011. While Schwarz considers Juarez “always scary” and never stays for more than a week at a time, his piqued interest has kept him returning.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Judging from the photo, it seems like the drug war (and the U.S. guns fueling it), is a pretty small and remote story, as least, from up here.
via: Reuters Editor’s Choice slideshow
(photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters caption: The body of a dead man, with a rifle next to him, lies in a field after a shootout with police on the outskirts of Monterrey February 28, 2012. According to local media, 11 people were killed in different violent incidents in the city. )
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Bag’s Take-Away (re: View from the Texas Border):
As my friend, photographer Peter Calvin writes: It’s not exactly the Statue of Liberty welcome…”(The pic accompanies an editorial at the Dallas Morning News challenging the narco-war hysteria.)
(photo: Jesus Alcazar/AP)
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