Weekly Report - 19 November 2009 (WR-09-46)

MEXICO | Public Relations. The interior ministry criticised a US magazine, Forbes, on 12 November for putting a Mexican drug gangster 41st in the magazine's ranking of the world's 67 most powerful people. The interior ministry spokesman, Luis Estrada, accused Forbes of poking fun at the government's costly (over 5,500 people killed this year alone) struggle to defeat organised crime. Forbes ranked Joaquí­n “El Chapo" (shorty) Guzmán above figures such as the presidents of Russia, France and Venezuela. Earlier this year, when Forbes included Guzmán on its Rich List, the government criticised the magazine's methodology. Guzmán runs one of the main factions of the Sinaloa gang.

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