Mexico beefs up ‘drug war’ forces Mexico’s government is sending 5,500 police and military personnel to Michoacan state, which has seen a surge in violence linked to drug cartels.Twenty police officers and troops have been killed in the state in suspected revenge attacks for the arrest of an alleged cartel boss last weekend. Since 2006, more than 45,000 troops and tens of thousands of police have been deployed to tackle Mexican drug gangs. The government said earlier that it would never negotiat

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