Espino Contradicts the Administration

Manuel Espino, ex-president of the PAN, said yesterday that Mexico is not, in fact, winning the battles against the drug cartels, contradicting last week's remarks from Eduardo Medina Mora, the attorney general. In politics as in life, internecine warfare is the ugliest. Despite sharing party alliance, Espino has been a consistent pain in Calderón's rear since the moment he was elected.