Mexico: 61 Die in Attack on Casino in Monterrey

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On Thursday, August 25, gunmen set the Casino Royale in Monterrey on fire. Gancho reports on the latest death toll and briefly explains what was behind this attack: “Sixty-one people were killed in a casino in Monterrey yesterday, after the owners refused to make extortion payments to the Zetas.” On Twitter Mexicans are using the hashtags #CasinoRoyale, #FuerzaMonterrey, #sinopuedenrenuncien, among others, to express their outrage.

Written bySilvia Viñas

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[…] author Issa Villarreal put together a Storify post showing how family and friends of the victims of the Casino Royale attack in Monterrey are using Twitter to search for information about their loved ones. […]

26 August 2011, 16:19 pm
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[…] zones”; they’re also using it to organize. After the casino fire in Monterrey, a series of Twitter hashtags such as #CasinoRoyale, #FuerzaMonterrey, and #SiNoPuedeRenuncien were used to express widespread […]

7 October 2011, 13:59 pm

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