Friday, January 15, 2010

Criticisms of Calderón's Crime Policy

This from a recent press conference of Manlio Fabio Beltrones:
The crime we wave that we are living in Mexico at the beginning of 2010 should encourage the government to think very hard about how to strengthen its strategy of searching for greater peace and tranquility for Mexico, as all Mexicans demand and, in large part, its action of open and decided combat of organized crime and drug trafficking has all the support of Congress, as well as the majority of or even all Mexicans.

But a strategy that has no movement, the only thing that it generates is that results that we have until today continue: violence and murder in the first month, which are very striking. We would invite the government to meet with urgency, with the end result of revising its strategy.

I think that this meeting could also serve to examine some truly scary issues, such as permitting a drug trafficker to remodel a jail. It seems that in such a moment the government stops existing.

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