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2 high-profile killings in Mexico stoke outrage about nationwide surge in slayings

MEXICO CITY - Public indignation about Mexico's surging homicide rate has followed the two latest high-profile killings - those of a human rights ombudsman in Baja California Sur state and a telecommunications executive outside Mexico City.

President Enrique Pena Nieto denounced the killing of Adolfo Lagos Espinosa, a vice president of the Televisa media giant, who was shot Sunday in an apparent botched robbery as he was bicycling in a rural area close to the landmark

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