Latinnews Daily - 4 June 2007

President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's shrewd decision to forge close links with the country's governors paid off on 29 May when the Conferencia Nacional de Gobernadores (Conago), unanimously supported his controversial deployment of the army against organised crime. The governors' support for the policy is a blow to congress, the UN and a range of human rights organisations which oppose the deployment of the army in anti-crime actions.