Topic - Washington Office On Latin America

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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks to the media during a tour of the World Trade International Bridge at the U.S. Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, Thursday, July 23, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 15, 2009 file photo, soldiers stand in line as they prepare to board military vehicles at the Military School in Mexico City, where new recruits are being sent to the northern Mexico for drug crop eradication. The vast majority of human rights abuses allegedly committed by soldiers waging Mexico’s war on drug gangs go unsolved and unpunished despite reforms letting civilian authorities investigate and prosecute such crimes, a report said Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Report: Rights abuses by Mexican military largely unpunished

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press