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Anti-Violence Campaigner Shot in Mexico
Newsday ^ | 1/30/07 | n/a

Posted on 01/31/2007 4:47:40 PM PST by kiriath_jearim

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- An anti-crime campaigner who was helping promote a march against a wave of violence in this Pacific coast resort city was wounded by gunmen Tuesday, police said.

Patricia Calixto, 33, was in stable condition at a local hospital with wounds to her abdomen, hand and head, hospital officials said.

Calixto had just returned to her car, which carried signs promoting the Feb. 18 anti-violence march, after exercising at a local beach when unidentified gunment shot her and fled, Guerrero State police officials said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; mexico

1 posted on 01/31/2007 4:47:42 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

We need to get Code Pink down to Acapulco ASAP.


2 posted on 01/31/2007 4:49:02 PM PST by unkus
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To: kiriath_jearim

She needs a gun


3 posted on 01/31/2007 4:49:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Anti-Violence Campaigner Shot

I love the smell of irony in the morning.

4 posted on 01/31/2007 5:09:42 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: kiriath_jearim

Quagmire!!


5 posted on 01/31/2007 5:16:55 PM PST by Uriah_lost (We've got enough youth, how about a "fountain of smart")
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To: kiriath_jearim

Don't bring a sign to a gunfight.


6 posted on 01/31/2007 5:18:44 PM PST by SIDENET (Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
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To: SIDENET

He was not a gunman. He was an insurgent.


7 posted on 01/31/2007 6:02:05 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: kiriath_jearim

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?


8 posted on 01/31/2007 7:55:14 PM PST by Chewbacca (I reject your reality and substitute my own.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

When will we abandon our quagmire involvement in the ongoing Civil War in Mexico?


9 posted on 02/02/2007 2:07:43 PM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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