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Radio Scotland,7 mins

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The rising tide of violence in Mexico was brought to the international attention when the editor of the Juarez-based newspaper Norte closed it because of the threat posed to journalists by the country’s drug cartels. Graham Stewart spoke to the BBC's correspondent in Mexico City, Juan Paullier, and Professor Diego Sánchez Ancochea, Director of the Latin America Centre at Oxford University, about the cycle of corruption and violence the country appears to be locked in and how it can be broken.

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