Weekly Report - 12 January 2012 (WR-12-02)

MEXICO | Mexico City. The three main parties are starting to line up their candidates for the mayoral election. On 11 January two of the main candidates for the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) nomination said that the party had decided to nominate Isabel Miranda de Wallace, an anti-crime campaigner, who has never run for public office before, as its candidate for mayor. She set up an NGO, Alto al Secuestro, which campaigned against violent crime and kidnapping in particular. She takes no nonsense from the government and pointed out late last year that the federal government had still failed to deploy specialist anti-kidnapping police forces, promised in 2008, and that the national kidnapping rate went up by 15% in 2011.

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