Mexican army shuts down three narco-laboratories in Jalisco

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A Mexican soldier stands guard next in a clandestine chemical drug processing laboratory discovered in a cave in the mountains of Yahualica, Jalisco State, on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. More than 70,000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police to take on organized crime. 

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