A good Mexican cop seeks asylum

Published December 16, 2009

Last year, Mexican police detective Gustavo Gutierrez stepped off an airplane at Toronto's Pearson airport and asked a Canadian border guard for asylum.

The detective had been the commander of a highly respected special squad that investigated the rape and murder of hundreds of women in the north of Mexico. He was so well-known in the area that the state attorney general erected large billboards displaying...

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