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Security & Strategic Review February 2008 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: 'Successes could allow military pullout'
The Mexican government has been claiming significant success in its
combined military-police offensive against the drug gangs, launched almost
immediately after President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006. It
says it has severely damaged the structures of the main cartels and made a
considerable impact on the flow of drugs towards the US. The latter claim is
questionable, and though successes have continued to be reported into 2008, the
violence of the intergang turf war shows no sign of abating.
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