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Puerto Rico: High Murder Rate

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 5 July 2011 19:59 GMT

“June 2011: 101 murders in one month in what is the bloodiest year to date in Our recent history”: Gil the Jenius says that “almost all the blame for this lies in a purposely-created system…”

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