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Security & Strategic Review - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: More kingpins fall but effects remain unclear
On 2 March interior minister Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong proclaimed that the government had already captured 90 of the country’s 122 most wanted criminals, and that it most cases this had happened ‘without firing a single shot.’ He did add that this should not be interpreted as a claim that the capture, a few days earlier, of the leader of Los Caballeros Templarios, meant that the government had solved the problem of insecurity. Over the following 11 days another two names were removed from the most-wanted list. Osorio has warned that these successes must not be interpreted as spelling ‘the end of insecurity’, and seasoned analysts do not agree on what might follow them.
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