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Special Report - Drugs in Latin America: Part 2 (ISSN 17414474)
Big problems
President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's brave decision to deploy the
army against the drug gangs as soon as he took office on 1 December 2006 has yet
to pay dividends. Indeed on a lot of measures, including death toll and public
opinion, the decision to take on the gangs looks disastrous. By the beginning of
November 2008, at least 4,300 people had been killed by gangs: in the whole of
2007, 2,700 people died at the hands of the gangs. As a result of the
increasingly gory war, public support for Calderón's crusade against the gangs
has dropped markedly.
