Shootout in Mexico’s drug war
Federal police in Mexico believe that several members of La Familia, one of the country’s most notoriously violent drug gangs, have been killed in a shootout in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan State, after the gang blockaded the city. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets an update on Mexico’s drug wars from Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution.
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