Hunting Chicken

Ricardo El Pollo Estrada, one of the FBI's 35 most wanted criminals and an associate of the Arellano Félix cartel in Tijuana, was captured by the Mexican army yesterday. The cartels are still killing huge numbers of people, but Estrada is just one of a number of big fish caught by the Mexican authorities in recent weeks, which could buy Calderón a little patience from the public. Then again, catching all the biggest kingpins while the country went to hell around them didn't work too well for Vicente Fox, so one of Calderón's top priorities has to be to limit the violence.