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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Retired Army Gen. Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo waits to be sworn in April 4 as the top cop of Quintana Roo state on Mexico's Caribbean coast. He is a grand-nephew of the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.
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A woman sees a relative lying dead on the ground after he was killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in December 2010. (Associated Press)
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A victim of a narco-crime is found along a road on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half-dozen words for drug cartel informants and double that for drug war dead, but Mexicans worry that developing a kind of offhand jargon anesthetizes people by making violence seem routine. (Associated Press)
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Fernando Molina left Mexico for the U.S. more than a decade ago and settled in Aurora, Ill. He is part of a migratiton to the suburbs offering established Hispanic neighborhoods that include homes, stores and libraries. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, heads that House panel that wants documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the decision to "walk guns to Mexico in order to follow them and capture a bigger fish." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A Customs and Border Protection agent patrols by car along the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., in April 2010. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A fence marks the Mexico-U.S. border near Nogales, Ariz. The U.S. government hasn’t come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the border, despite an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs that has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Paris Hilton during her autograph signing session at a Sears in the Perisur Mall of Mexico City, Mexico, Tuesday March 29, 2011. Hilton is in Mexico to promote her new shoe line. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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The shoes of American celebrity Paris Hilton are seen as she waits for a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico, Tuesday March 29, 2011. Hilton is in Mexico to promote her new shoe collection. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Journalists Carlos Loret de Mola (left) and Sergio Sarmiento speak at Mexico Initiative 2011 in Mexico City last Thursday. Most of Mexico's largest news media outlets agreed to a set of drug-war reporting guidelines, promising not to glorify drug traffickers, publish cartel propaganda messages or reveal information that could endanger police operations.
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** FILE ** Carlos Pascual, U.S. ambassador to Mexico (AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File)
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New York Red Bulls defender Rafael Marquez, of Mexico, watches an NBA basketball game between the New Jersey Nets and the Boston Celtics, Monday, March 14, 2011, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata was mortally wounded Feb. 15 during an attack near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. (Courtesy of ICE officials)
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Mexican federal police guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by unknown gunmen on Highway 57 between Mexico City and Monterrey, near the town of Santa Maria Del Rio, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Pulso Diario de San Luis-Teodoro Blanco Vazquez)
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** FILE ** Mexican federal police guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under fire from unknown gunmen on Highway 57 between Mexico City and Monterrey, near the town of Santa Maria Del Rio in San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed, and another was wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Pulso Diario de San Luis, Teodoro Blanco Vazquez)
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Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by unknown gunmen on Highway 57 between Mexico City and Monterrey, near the town of Santa Maria Del Rio, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Pulso Diario de San Luis-Teodoro Blanco Vazquez)
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Carlos Mario Gonzalez, 16, who was a sophomore at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas, was one of three U.S. students who were killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, outside a car dealership across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Cathedral High School)
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The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde talks with migrants at a shelter in Chahuites, in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state, on Jan. 8. He warns migrants of their risk of being abducted and perhaps killed by the Zetas-linked kidnappers. (Associated Press)
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A migrant from Central America stands outside a migrant house, as do local police in the town of Arriaga, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, on Jan. 6. More than forty such migrants were abducted in Oaxaca in a December incident; 20 subsequently escaped. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In thisJan. 21, 2011 file photo originally provided by the Quintana Roo State Attorney Generals Office, pop singer Kalimba, left, from Mexico, is seen by a police officer in Chetumal, Mexico, after being deported from El Paso, Texas. He was being sought in Mexico on charges of raping a teenage girl. A Mexican judge has ruled there is not enough evidence to try Kalimba on rape charges, and ordered him released. The charges alleged that a 17-year-old girl was raped on Dec. 19 at a Quintana Roo hotel. (AP Photo/Quintana Roo State Attorney Generals Office)
