Gaspar Rivera Salgado

University of California, Los Angeles

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Project Director at the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education

Gaspar Rivera Salgado on KCRW

Tens of thousands of Mexicans have been killed since President Felipe Calderón began his war on brutal drug cartels after taking office six years ago.

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