Month: May 2009

Congress makes ground on legislation regarding drug possession, asset forfeiture, arms smuggling and federal police powers

The Mexican Congress passed a flurry of legislation in the waning days of April defining terms for drug prosecutions, asset forfeiture laws, and surveillance powers for federal police. The rapidity …

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Cartel violence levels off nationwide, though already nearing 2007 numbers; alleged cartel operators continue to fall

After a sharp downswing in cartel-related slayings or ejecuciones in reported in April’s news report, such killings have leveled off since our last reporting period, according to Reforma’s Ejecutometro 2009. …

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Federal crackdown on corruption in Michoacán: Nearly 30 local officials arrested

Gernaro Guizar Valencia-Apatzingán-PRD Uriel Farias Alvarez-Tepalcatepec-PRI Jairo Germán Rivas-Arteaga-PRI Antonio González Rodríguez-Uruapan-PAN Audel Méndez Chávez-Coahuayana-PRI Osvaldo Esquivel Lucatero-Buenavista-PRD Adán Tafolla Ortiz-Tumbiscatio-PRI-PVEM Juan Antonio Ixtlahuac Orihuela-Zitácuaro-PRI José Cortez Ramos-Aquila-PRI José Luis …

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