Weekly Report - 25 September 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

On 22 September the security minister, Genaro Garcí­a Luna, said that the government would never make a deal with the drug gangs. Garcí­a Luna and the Procurador General, Eduardo Medina Mora, were testifying to senators. Several senators were deeply critical of the government's failure to curb killings by gangs. The gangs have killed 3,250 people so far this year, up from 2,700 killed in the whole of 2007. Medina Mora denied that the government had a choice between a truce or violence: he said that the violence was a fact.