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Mexican capital deploys National Guard to stem violence. MEXICO

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The mayor of Mexico’s capital says the National Guard will be deployed throughout the city as the metropolis struggles to contain rising violent crime.

Claudia Sheinbaum said Saturday that 2,700 national guardsmen will soon begin working “special operatives in the entire city.”

A string of recent kidnapping­s, shootings and extortions has pierced the Mexican capital’s reputation as a relative safe zone amid widespread violence and impunity in the country.

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