President Felipe Calderón arrived in the US on an official two-day visit on 2 March. Mexico-US relations regarding security have come to the fore after two US officials were attacked as they travelled through San Luís Potosí (SLP), a central Mexican state not considered to be a focus of violence, on 15 February. The incident led to the death of Jaime Zapata, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. This caused friction between US and Mexican authorities, including Calderón, who in a videotaped interview on 22 February complained about the lack of coordination between the two countries' security forces. The US Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, then expressed her disappointment at Mexico's current security situation. The diplomatic frictions spurred Mexican security forces to act decisively on the case and only a couple of days later, they managed to capture two people accused of carrying out the attack.
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