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Spanish words can't capture the drug war's vicious nature in Mexico, so the media has coined new palabras.
Now, there's a word for being lined up and shot, and another for being dumped in the trunk of a car; also for mafia kidnappings, for drug-gang spies and for the hand-scrawled notes hit men leave with the bodies of their victims. Also to describe beheadings and bodies cut up and stewed in acid? View the glossary!
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