Gunmen stormed El Aliviane drug rehab center in Ciudad Juárez [2] Sept. 3 and executed at least 16 people, lining the victims up behind the building and shooting them one by one. (LAT [3], Sept. 3) Meanwhile in Michoacán [4], the state sub-secretary for Citizen Protection, José Manuel Revueltas López, was assassinated in a two-truck drive-by shooting just outside the state Public Security Secretariat in Morelia, the capital. Two body-guards and a by-stander were also killed in the attack. (La Jornada [5], Sept. 3)
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