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Weekly Report - 5 February 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: Pace of killings slows
The good news for the government is that outside Chihuahua the pace
of killing by gangsters appears to be slowing down from last year's rate. There
are two worrying developments, however. The first is that gangsters have widened
their area of operations: on 3 February they murdered a recently retired general
who had just accepted a job to advise the mayor of Cancún on security issues.
The second development is that a range of ordinary people have started to take
their own security measures, demonstrating how little trust they have in the
police.
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