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Weekly Report - 29 October 2015 (WR-15-43)
MEXICO: Osorio Chong confounded by data on violence
Politicians who claim success in the battle against crime often find themselves in danger of being confounded by statistics. Such seems to have been the fate of the interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, who on 22 October told a joint sitting of the security and governance commissions of the federal chamber of deputies that “it is a fact that violence and crime is falling in much of the country”.
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