Weekly Report - 12 April 2005

Nahum Acosta, the former official in President Vicente Fox's travel office accused of passing information about his boss's itinerary to a prominent drug trafficker, has been freed after a judge ruled that the evidence presented by the prosecution was insufficient to sustain the charge. Hints that the case might go this way had been circulating ever since officials started toning down the allegations about Acosta [WR-05-08].