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...once popular Rosarito Beach, where some 1.5 million tourists usually visit each year (and where 14,000 U.S. residents have homes), the narco-war news coverage has "murdered" business, according to city mayor Hugo Torres. Tourism in the first months of the year is off nearly 90%, he says...
...bloodied border, it has become clearer to see what needs to be done to rein in the drug-related crime that, as President Barack Obama said in a visit to Mexico this month, is "sowing chaos in our communities" - both American and Mexican. For starters, Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz, who has received death threats from the gangs, is trying to purge the city's corrupt, 1,600-member police force and hopes to build a more professional department twice the size. "We have no choice left," he tells TIME...
...decision was a difficult one to make, Steinbrueck said, adding that he was “significantly father ahead” of the incumbent mayor in the local polls, but that the chance to study at Harvard proved to be too tempting...
Former Seattle City Council Member Peter Steinbrueck has turned down a chance to run for mayor of Seattle so that he can accept a fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design for the coming academic year...
Though many of his supporters were disappointed that Steinbrueck will not be running for mayor, they supported his decision to come to Harvard...