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Karla Ramirez: Ambar Casso

Cesar Casso Dept: VANCOUVER - Her voice is strained as Karla Ramirez recounts seeing the butt of a gun, a man telling her she'd better be careful or her body might turn up in an empty lot, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Names are here," she said, thumbing through her book The Talent of Charlatans, at a news conference Thursday and mexican journalist Karla Ramirez, left, and her husband Cesar Casso carry their Canadian-born daughters, six-week-old Nicte Casso and one-year-old Ambar Casso after a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday January 19, 2012. She and her husband fled to Canada in 2008 after receiving death threats as a result of her work to uncover corruption at a government ministry. Her refugee status application was rejected in 2010 and now she is fighting deportation from Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Yet she proceeds to name names, defiantly alleging corruption in the highest echelons of a Mexican government ministry that she says she unearthed while working there as a journalist. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.