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Weekly Report - 03 September 2015 (WR-15-35)
MEXICO: Questions raised about most-wanted list
For a number of years, Mexican governments have been following a so-called ‘kingpins’ strategy against the big drug trafficking organisations (DTOs), identifying and targeting their top leaders for capture. It is a strategy reminiscent of that deployed by the US armed forces in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, when they listed a ‘deck of cards’ made up of 52 top fugitives from the defeated Ba’ath party regime that they wanted to capture: the Ace of Spades was Saddam Hussein, eventually captured in 2003 and executed in 2006. The current Mexican government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto started out with a list of 122 targets, and before the prison escape of Sinaloa DTO leader, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, last July, it claimed that it had neutralised 93 of them. But matters have become somewhat confused. Unlike the ‘deck of cards’ the Mexican government says the exact names on the list have always been secret; some have been dropped off; and the ‘most wanted’ are actually no longer 122, but 30.
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