Lots of Arrests

The government says that it has arrested 67,000 people have been arrested since Calderón came into office. Contrary to recent assertions from Edgardo Buscaglia that less than 1,000 of those arrested have been from Chapo Guzmán's Sinaloa gang, the government places the number at more than 16,000.

That discrepancy aside, the article doesn't tell us how many of the above were eventually convicted or let back out on the street without charges. Most estimates show that the latter result is far more common, which makes such a big number as 67,000 far less significant. Also, it should be noted that 64,000 of those arrested were narcomenudistas, or low-level dealers, rather than big players.