Weekly Report - 30 August 2012 (WR-12-34)

A car carrying US diplomatic plates came under sustained fire from federal police (PF) officers in the south-central state of Morelos on 24 August. Two US officials travelling in the vehicle were injured, and a Mexican navy captain was largely unscathed. At this point the facts of the incident give way to speculation. The identity of the US officials, for instance, is unclear, as is precisely what they were doing in Mexico, and why they came under attack. Without clearing up these issues, President Felipe Calderόn apologised in public to US ambassador Anthony Wayne four days later.