Helicopter crash kills Mexican president’s top Cabinet secretary

[Ed Jewett]

Helicopter crash kills Mexican president's top Cabinet secretary, a key figure in drug war

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By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, November 11, 7:40 PM

MEXICO CITY The country's top Cabinet secretary, Francisco Blake Mora, a key figure in Mexico's battle with drug cartels, died Friday in a helicopter crash that President Felipe Calderon said was probably an accident.
Blake Mora, 45, was the second interior minister, the No. 2 post in the government, to die in an air crash during Calderon's administration.

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