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Drug-related crime tarnishes society: here in Mexico City, the power of the drug gangs means that even the law has to hide its face as federal agents stand guard over a changing house that is thought to have been used by cocaine smugglers for money laundering. This is, apparently, America. Indeed, just a few minutes’ walk away, men and women work in light and airy offices, relax in clean and friendly cafés, and do their shopping in elegant and spacious malls. But that world might as well be a million miles away. The only visitors who ever make it down here from “planet

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THE WAR ON DRUGS