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Security & Strategic Review - August 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Mexico is back to targeting kingpins and mass deployments of troops
The government of Enrique Peña Nieto started out by rejecting as counterproductive two features of the Calderón administration’s war on the drug- trafficking cartels: its focus on targeting the top leaders of these organisations and its large-scale deployments of troops and federal police in response to flareups of violence. While it still claims to be conducting a different strategy, combining preventive measures with enhanced intelligence and cooperation between agencies and the federal and state governments, selective targeting and troop surges remain very much in evidence.
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