Poll: Record Number of Mexicans Crime Victims in 2013

While Mexico's government says the country is getting safer, a record number of Mexicans were victims of crime last year, according to a survey by national statistics institute INEGI published on Tuesday. President Enrique Pena Nieto came to power nearly two years ago vowing to end drug violence that has killed around 100,000 people since 2007. But while government data shows the murder rate has fallen since Pena Nieto took office, crimes such as kidnapping and extortion, which...

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