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Weekly Report - 25 September 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: Still shocked
On 22 September the security minister, Genaro García Luna, said that
the government would never make a deal with the drug gangs. García Luna and the
Procurador General, Eduardo Medina Mora, were testifying to senators. Several
senators were deeply critical of the government's failure to curb killings by
gangs. The gangs have killed 3,250 people so far this year, up from 2,700 killed
in the whole of 2007. Medina Mora denied that the government had a choice
between a truce or violence: he said that the violence was a fact.
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