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The Death of Maria
December 12th, 2012
In late November of this year, authorities found the body of Maria, a woman in her early 20s, outside an armored van along a mountainous road in northwestern Mexico. In February, Maria Susana Flores Gámez won the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa beauty pageant. She also became involved with the Sinaloa drug Cartel. Maria died in a shootout between the gang and the police in those mountains with a gun in her hand. She was riddled with bullets because someone had used her body as a human shield. Maria was the fourth known beauty queen to get involved with Mexican drug...
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Senior HSBC bankers need to face jail for their bank’s role in laundering drugs money; fining the bank won’t work
December 11th, 2012
LONDON – Today, Europe’s largest bank, HSBC, announced that it will pay $1.9 billion (£1.2 billion) to settle allegations that it laundered money for drugs cartels, terrorists and pariah states. During approximately the same period that HSBC failed to check whether the dollars it was shipping from Mexico to the US were drugs money, 47,000 people died at the hands of Mexican drugs traffickers.
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