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Weekly Report - 27 January 2011 (WR-11-04)
MEXICO: Gangs shake Monterrey
The gangs appear to be anticipating the federal government's
arguments that, finally, it is winning the war on organised crime it declared in
December 2006. The government has two main arguments. The first is that it is
containing the worst violence to a limited number of states and municipalities
and, crucially, the heavily populated and politically important areas of the
Estado de México and Mexico City (or DF) are still comparatively safe. The
government's second argument is that its strategy of taking out (either
arresting or killing) gang leaders is working and is disabling the gangs.
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