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With China’s Help, Mexico Is On The Verge of Becoming a ‘Narco State’

JUAREZ, MEXICO – NOVEMBER 13: The casket of murdered Police Officer David Miranda Ramirez, 36, is carried by fellow Police at his funeral. The border city of Juarez (population: 1.5 million) is a slaughterhouse ruled by drug lords where the death toll this year is 1,300 and counting. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz/Edit by Getty Images)
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Posted: June 7th, 2023

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Deep inside a ravine on the outskirts of a western Mexican city overseen by among the world’s most powerful drug cartels, 45 bags of human remains were uncovered this past week — the latest grisly event to plague America’s southern neighbor.  

Such incidents in Mexico are not especially unique. But the spate of violence may have recently reached a breaking point, with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador calling for a peace agreement between his country’s largest cartels.

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