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Patients are evacuated from Tijauna's general hospital after a gunfight that left three people dead in this April 18, 2007 file photo. Mexico's raging drugs war has killed an estimated 1,400 people just this year, and the almost daily scenes of tortured bodies or severed heads has struck fear even in traffickers, and given the impression that the government may be losing control. To match feature DRUGS-AMERICAS/TRAFFICKER
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Tourists wait in line to leave Cancun international airport in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo as Hurricane Dean approaches August 18, 2007. Authorities began evacuating residents of the Mexican Caribbean on Saturday and tourists in Cancun cleared supermarket shelves as the second ferocious hurricane in two years neared the luxury resort.



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