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Mexico’s Mayors Getting Bumped Off in Drug War
By Anne-Marie O’Connor and William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service TANCITARO, Mexico – Gustavo Sanchez worked hard in this Mexican farming town at one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. He was a mayor. Last weekend, Sanchez and a town councilman disappeared. Their bodies were found Monday, the skulls smashed open in the…
Cancun Mayor Arrested on Drug and Money Laundering Charges
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The deep-seeded signs of corruption continued to surface Wednesday when Mexican authorities arrested the slick mayor of Cancun, a popular tourist destination, on charges of money laundering and working with drug cartels, the Washington Post reported. The Post reported that Mayor Gregorio Sanchez was arrested at the Cancun airport after returning…
Pulitzer Prize Winners Who Brought Down Detroit Mayor Publish Book of His Famous and Infamous Quotes
By Allan Lengel For AOL News When former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is the target of an FBI bribery investigation, was re-elected in 2005 in a miraculous comeback, he told his followers, “Some y’all just crazy.” When he came to visit the Detroit Free Press years before his text-message scandal, he said to city…