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Weapons seized by the Mexican Policia Federal Preventiva under the Merida Initiative Buzzwords appears each Friday on the Wide Angle blog and breaks down the lingo, jargon and hot topics of the world’s headlines. Erin Chapman In the last 15 months, over 7,000 lives have been claimed in Mexico’s drug-related violence. U.S. pundits are calling […]https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/files/2009/03/wa_img_merida_initiative_weapons_seized.jpg