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Weekly Report - 10 January 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: Tit for tat killings in Tamaulipas
President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's war on crime has moved into a new
phase. In December 2006 Calderón deployed the army in 10 states where gangsters
were threatening to take over, but the army was used, primarily, as a police
force. The evidence of what happened in Tamaulipas on 7 January, when an
army-led group shot dead three gangsters and the violent response by the
gangsters the following day, suggests that the army is taking over from the
police with a shoot-to-kill, rather than aim-to-arrest, policy. The gangsters
gunned down two policemen in Reynosa Tamaulipas on 8 January.
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