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- WORLD, Page 65World NotesMEXICOGovernment by Terrorism?
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- At dusk last Monday, Norma Corona Sapienz, 38, president of
- the State Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in
- Culiacan, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, was driving home from work
- when three men in a pickup blocked her path. She tried to flee
- on foot. Suddenly gunfire rang out, and five bullets tore
- through the prominent attorney's back, killing her instantly.
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- The assassination was hardly unusual. Drug trafficking has
- led to a spate of killings. However, in Mexico much of the
- violence is the work of corrupt police officials, who often
- operate under the guise of stepped-up narcotics enforcement.
- Despite President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's official
- condemnations of political corruption, complaints about savage
- human- rights abuses in Mexico have increased dramatically
- since he took office in 1988. In a report released in Mexico
- City two weeks ago, the Dominican Center for Human Rights
- declared that more than 100 summary executions took place
- during the first 14 months of Salinas' administration.
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