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Marta Rivera Alanis, a 33-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of two, received a special recognition from local Mexican authorities for her heroic action calming her 15 pre-school-age students during a gun battle which raged outside her classroom Friday.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred Friday at a school in Monterrey, 140 miles south of the Texas border and once one of the safest, most prosperous cities in Mexico.<\/p>\n

But in recent years, drug traffickers have been settling into Monterrey’s posh neighborhoods, changing the tranquility of the city.<\/p>\n

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