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Weekly Report - 09 June 2011 (WR-11-23)
MEXICO: The violence takes centre stage
Carlos Manuel Salas, the attorney general for the border state of Chihuahua, said on 7 June that drug-trafficking gangs had at least 14,000 armed men deployed in the state. This statement underlines how little progress the federal government has made against the gangs since launching its war on organised crime on 1 December 2006. The government explicitly admitted that there was still a lot of work to be done to defeat the gangs on 6 June when the foreign minister, Patricia Espinosa, told the Organization of American States (OAS) that her government would not defeat the gangs "any time soon."
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