Security Update (Wed)

The four-month-old uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has drawn from the Mexican government the unusual admission, albeit oblique, that it is more concerned about the threat from guerrilla organisations than it has so far let on. The defence minister, General Clemente Vega, has stated that it has had 5,414 soldiers patrolling different parts of Oaxaca 'for the containment of armed groups'. The federal chief prosecutor's office, the PGR, announced that it had identified nine armed organisations 'with real presence', chiefly in four states.