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Mexico’s attorney general says that the nation’s powerful drug cartels are working to influence and disrupt upcoming national elections through a variety of tactics, up to and including kidnapping candidates, the Washington Post reported Jan. 5.

“We have evidence, complaints from candidates who were kidnapped or intimidated, or who received threats intended to influence the results of an election and the behavior of candidates,” said Mexican AG Eduardo Medina Mora in a rare acknowledgment of the problems facing Mexican democracy.

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NASCAR driver Aaron Fike reached an agreement with a Warren County (Ohio) judge to deliver anti-drug messages to youths in exchange for avoiding jail time in his arrest for heroin possession last summer, Associated Press Sports reported Nov. 27.

NASCAR driver Aaron Fike and his fiancee Cassandra Davidson was arrested in an amusement park parking lot in Cincinnati. After four months of rehabilitation, Fike presented a proposal to the judge to avoid jail time by going to schools and racetracks to deliver an anti-drug message.

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