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Weekly Report - 3 May 2007
MEXICO: Colonel and four soldiers killed in Michoacán
President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa broke with precedent on 2 May and attended the ceremony to honour five soldiers killed in an ambush on May Day. The president is increasingly identifying with the military who are leading his ineffective offensives against the drug trade.
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