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Claire O'Neill McCleskey

Sinaloa Town Displaced by 'Zetas' Threats

Monday, 17 June 2013 09:46 Published in News Briefs

Around 200 families in the state of Sinaloa have been forced to flee their homes due to death threats from a criminal group allegedly linked to the Zetas, adding to the hundreds of thousands of people internally displaced by organized crime in Mexico.

Honduras' military say that homicides in San Pedro Sula have fallen sharply since the military was deployed to the world's most violent city, but the imprecise statistics fail to provide a clear picture of the armed forces' actual impact.

The murder of the director of a Rio de Janeiro newspaper provides yet another example of the violence facing journalists in Brazil, although the motive behind his killing remains unclear.

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