Cuban-American
Jun 20 2008, AP

Hundreds of police and military sharpshooters guarded an immigration detention center Friday in southern Mexico amid threats that gunmen would try to rescue a Cuban-American man being held there on smuggling charges, state officials said.Gumersindo...

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