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Mexico’s Top law Official Killed in Crash

HeadlineSep 22, 2005

Mexico’s top federal law enforcement official was killed Wednesday along with eight others in a helicopter crash. Ramon Martin Huerta, who was a close ally of Vicente Fox and Mexico’s secretary of public security, was traveling to a ceremony for new prison guards at Mexico’s maximum-security La Palma prison when the Bell helicopter crashed into a mountain about 30 miles west of the capital.

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