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Weekly Report - 6 December 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: Gangsters kill Tecate police chief
Gangsters killed Tecate's chief of police operations on his third day in
the job on 4 December. There is a clear political angle to the killing. Tecate
was one of the cities won by the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) from the Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in the Baja California state elections in
August. The new mayor, Donaldo Peñalosa Avila, took office on 1 December.
Almost the first act of the new administration was to find a tunnel in Tecate
which was used, almost certainly, to take drugs from Baja California into the
US. The policeman who led the operation to investigate the tunnel was José Juan
Soriano Pereira, who was gunned down on 4 December.
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