"Ex-Mayor of Palermo Visits BC to Help Against Organized Crime
When organized-crime fighter Leoluca Orlando became mayor of Palermo, Sicily in 1985 there were 250 mafia-related murders in that city of approximately 700,000 people. Fifteen years later the city reported eight murders, none of which were related to organized crime.
In Mexicali on Saturday, March 29, 2003 to talk about what Baja California can do to create a "culture of law," Orlando found himself in a state that has seen nearly 100 narco-related murders since the beginning of the year, according to the Mexicali newspaper La Crónica."
http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/mar03/Mexicalinews.html
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