Carrie Kahn of member station K-P-B-S reports on the escalating drug-related violence in Tijuana, just twenty miles from San Diego, California. Seven Mexican federal law enforcement officials who worked in Tijuana have been murdered this year. Officials suspect the drug cartel run by the three Arellano Felix (ah-ray-YAH-no FAY-lix) brothers was behind the killings. Experts say the murders--along with a general rise in drug violence in Tijuana--are evidence that a power struggle is underway for control of the area's lucrative narcotics trade.
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