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Murders linked to organized crime in Mexico are up by nearly 50% this year according to Mexico's chief lawyer, Eduardo Medina Mora. In the first 18 months of President Felipe Calderón's administration, at leat 4,000 have died in drug-related violence and one out of 10 of those killed were prosecutors, soldiers or police. According to the New York Times: "Opposition politicians… have begun to question whether the president’s ambition has exceeded his grasp, with dangerous and destabilizing consequences for a country that shares a 2,000-mile border with the United States."