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Mexico targets gang that infiltrated the mining industry

by Paulina Villegas

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has stepped up its effort to crack down on one of the most powerful and feared criminal organizations in the country, with arrests and seizures this week aimed not at drug trafficking or extortion but at the gang’s lucrative infiltration of mining and smuggling iron ore to China.

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