MEXICO|
Security. On 18 July the state prosecutor in the Estado de México arrested an unnamed deputy police chief accused of organising the massacre of 11 people. The current governor of the Estado is Enrique Peña Nieto, who heads the opinion polls for the 2012 presidential election. His men are taking charge of this potential scandal, which could involve gangs in the Estado, an area hitherto been free of them. A lot of political commentators expect the federal government to make a move against Peña Nieto, probably after he hands over as governor in November, to try to knock him out of the presidential running. In 2004 and 2005 President Vicente Fox (2000-2006) tried something similar to knock out the then opinion poll frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
It is not clear who the policeman arrested is, or where he worked. The state prosecutor said that he was investigating the murder of 11 people in the Valle de Chalco. He said that another eight people had also been arrested.
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