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Ski-masked marines invited photographers into the shrapnel-ridden apartment to snap photos of the corpse late into Wednesday night. The graphic images of the bullet-ridden 51-year-old man, clothes hanging off and hands grasping religious beads, were soon plastered across the Internet alongside triumphant declarations from Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Takes Down a Drug Lord. But Will It Make Any Difference? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

However, some agents worry that the reins of this smuggling empire may now be taken over by Beltrán Leyva's feared chief of hit men, Edgar Valdez, 36, a Texas-born fugitive known as "The Barbie" because of his blond hair. Mexican officials allege that Valdez was behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Takes Down a Drug Lord. But Will It Make Any Difference? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

Alternatively, there is concern that the demise of "The Beard" may strengthen the hand of his top rival, Joaquín "El Chapo (Shorty)" Guzmán, the most wanted man in Mexico. Reputed to have been childhood friends in the mountains, Guzmán and Beltrán Leyva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Takes Down a Drug Lord. But Will It Make Any Difference? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

There are also questions about how the nature of Beltrán Leyva's end will affect the drug war. Back in the 1980s and '90s, key Mexican kingpins were arrested peacefully by police officers. However, amid the militarization of the conflict under Calderón, the armed forces conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Takes Down a Drug Lord. But Will It Make Any Difference? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

In recent weeks two landowners have immolated themselves to protest confiscation of their property. In November a 47-year-old woman in the southwestern city of Chengdu lit her self on fire to protest an effort to tear down a commercial building that the authorities said was illegally constructed. State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Property Wars: Fighting Fire with Real Fire | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

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