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Rising Mexico Suicides Reflect Trauma of Country's Chronic Violence

Mexico has suffered one of the world’s highest murder rates for over a decade, a consequence of the government’s aggressive, 12-year-long battle against drug trafficking organizations and other criminal groups, which has led lethal violence to escalate across the country. Almost 30,000 Mexicans were murdered in 2017. May 2018 was...

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