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A vendor in New Dehli sells vegetables from a cart. But where do most of the world’s hungry live? Photo: Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images

by Daniela Pastrana

Students from this school, the Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos teachers college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were attacked by the police in the city of Iguala in the state of Guerrero. Six were killed, 25 were injured and 43 are still missing. Credit: Pepe Jiménez/IPS

MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 2014 (IPS) – The images filled the front pages of Mexico’s newspapers: 61 half-dressed state policemen kneeling, with their hands tied, in the main square of the town of Tepatepec in the central state of Hidalgo, while local residents threatened to burn them alive.

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