By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ 2010-06-30T01:22:09Z CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) -- Drug cartels fund a tenth of Mexico's economy. They have infiltrated many local and state police forces and staged assaults on army bases. Now they're violently inserting themselves into politics, killing the leading candidate for governor of a northern state only days before Sunday's elections in 12 states....
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