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Weekly Report - 26 March 2009 (WR-09-12)

MEXICO: Calderón scores some successes

The government has arrested a couple of top gangsters in the past week and appears to have almost halted the killings in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. President Felipe Calderón is making an effort to show that his government is getting on top of the gang problem. The massive (8,000 person) deployment of soldiers and federal policemen in Ciudad Juárez has restored some sort of order there since the end of February. The problem is that the violence is bursting out in other states. Durango's death toll is rising and on 24 March five people were killed in a shoot-out, involving soldiers, in Torreón, Coahuila. There are also still regular gang murders in Michoacán, the first state into which the government sent the army.

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