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Slaying shakes up Mexican state

Troops sent to border area; victim was member of political family

By OSCAR VILLALBA AND E. EDUARDO CASTILLO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: October 5, 2012 at 2:17 a.m.

Jose Eduardo Moreira poses for photographers in Saltillo, Mexico, in October 2007.

Credit: AP
 Jose Eduardo Moreira poses for photographers in Saltillo, Mexico, in October 2007.

The Mexican government dispatched troops, federal police and criminal investigators to a violence-torn state on the U.S. border Thursday after the assassination of the governor’s nephew sent tremors through one of Coahuila’s most powerful political families.

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