Security & Strategic Review - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

In the last 10 days before Mexico’s general elections, outgoing President Felipe Calderón welcomed a development which, though unlikely to affect the outcome of the polls, might at least suggest that he would close his term of office with a major coup in his war on the Drug Trafficking Organisations (DTOs). After months of proclaiming that the net was closing on the world’s most wanted trafficker, Joaquín Guzmán Loera (‘el Chapo’), it was announced that marines had captured his son. As it turned out, they had got the wrong man, and the episode ended feeding conspiracy theories that have been attracting many adepts in both Mexico and the US.

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