05-05-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com

Social distancing long routine in areas run by armed groups

For people in Mexican towns and villages where criminal gangs, armed groups and drug traffickers hold more sway than the state, the novel coronavirus is just the latest danger.From the northern border to the western sierra to the Gulf Coast, hundreds of Mexican communities have been under curfew and quarantine for years.Death from a bullet or after disappearance has long been an ever-present possibility -- making the risk of coronavirus seem abstract, even as the toll grows around Mexico.
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