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Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and seven others died in a helicopter crash near Mexico City on Friday, a government spokeswoman said Friday.

LOS ANGELES -- Speaking to the annual Drug Policy Alliance conference on Friday, Mexican poet and social justice leader Javier Sicilia blamed "the 1 percent" for the brutal cartel violence that has gripped his country, and urged drug reform activists to stand with "Occupy Wall Street" in criticizing America's economic model.

Some 500 bodies still remain to be uncovered from hidden graves in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, a non-governmental group told reporters on Tuesday.