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Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?

  • Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the families of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in Guerrero state. He has ordered a truth commission to investigate the unsolved disappearance.Reuters/Edgard Garrido

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