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...Rojas, a business owner and rancher from the Mexican border city of Ju�rez. But last year narcos, or drug traffickers, moved into his upscale neighborhood--punks in cowboy attire and sparkling pickup trucks buying expensive homes. Rojas and his neighbors were awakened at night or horrified in broad daylight by assault-rifle fire and the screaming of tires as cars raced away after kidnappings. One afternoon, local children watched as a pickup rammed down the door of a house, sparking a gun battle that left four people dead in the street. Out at Rojas' ranch, the situation was worse...
...speak in vulgarities, spewing phrases like “gosh darn it” and “shucks,” not to mention their fixation on playing table tennis in the wee hours of the morning. Do they not realize that sportsmanship should take place only in daylight...
...through much of Mexico by foot, bus, truck, raft, and horse. Although I witnessed extreme poverty and occasional street violence, not once did I feel as if my life was in constant jeopardy. This past fall, in Creel, Mexico, 14 innocent civilians were gunned down in open daylight on a street I used to stroll on often past midnight. Their deaths were a casualty of the intense war between drug cartels, community law enforcement, and federal troops that increasingly engulfs parts of Mexico...
Izzettin Aslan, a retired civil servant, knows how elusive justice can be. In 1993, his son Murat, a 24-year-old university student in Diyarbakir, stepped out to pay an electricity bill. According to witnesses, four men grabbed Murat off a busy street in broad daylight and pushed him into a waiting car. "It was as if the ground opened up and swallowed him," Aslan says...
...presence of the Seventh Fleet, based at Yokosuka, would be "enough" U.S. military for East Asia - a remark that implied that all other U.S. bases in Japan should be closed. While he says that the relationship with the U.S. is "the most important that Japan has," Ozawa puts some daylight between himself and Washington. He told TIME: "When it comes to an exercise of military power which will be implemented or carried out by the U.S. alone, then Japan is not able to go along with the U.S. But if the international dispute settlement is to be arranged within...