{"id":614,"date":"2009-06-19T20:01:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justiceinmexico.wordpress.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-06-19T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:01:28","slug":"mexicos-drug-war-all-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiceinmexico.org\/mexicos-drug-war-all-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s Drug War All in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/americas\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13864838\">The Economist<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\"><strong>Suspicion falls on politicians<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\">FELIPE CALDER\u00d3N has bet his presidency on fighting Mexico\u2019s drug-trafficking syndicates and their penetration of his country\u2019s institutions. Yet for the first two and a half years of his administration, not a single elected official was arrested for complicity with the traffickers. That encouraged some of his Mexican critics to claim that his efforts were half-hearted. Now the government has started to answer them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\">Last month troops and federal police swooped on the president\u2019s home state of Michoac\u00e1n, arresting 28 officials including ten mayors, a senior official in the prosecutor\u2019s office and a judge. They are suspected of collaborating with <em>La Familia<\/em>, a notorious outfit that produces designer drugs and runs extortion rackets. Further arrests have followed across the country this month. Although they have not caused as much of a political stir, they involved eight employees of the prosecutor\u2019s office in the central state of Morelos, nine soldiers suspected of providing information on troop movements to the Sinaloa mob and 98 police in Nuevo Le\u00f3n in the north.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\">The government claims the Michoac\u00e1n raid as the fruit of reforms of the federal police, who have been equipped with new investigative and intelligence units, better salaries and more leeway to strike deals with informants. Much of the evidence came from the earlier arrest of Rafael Cede\u00f1o Hern\u00e1ndez, a leader of <em>La Familia<\/em> who also ran youth centres with the ostensible aim of preventing drug addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\">But critics worry that the raid is just a fishing expedition and that the government may lack the evidence it needs to secure convictions. None of the detainees has been charged. Prosecutors are relying on orders of <em>arraigo<\/em>, a power beefed-up in a judicial reform last year that allows them to hold suspects for up to 90 days while detectives do their work. \u201cInstead of investigating to arrest, they\u2019re arresting to investigate,\u201d says Ernesto L\u00f3pez Portillo of the Institute for Security and Democracy, an NGO. \u201c<em>Arraigo<\/em> is an exceptional instrument, and they are abusing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\">Although two of the arrested mayors are members of Mr Calder\u00f3n\u2019s own conservative National Action Party, the raid has soured his relations with the opposition. Michoac\u00e1n\u2019s governor, Leonel Godoy, who belongs to the leftish Party of the Democratic Revolution, is not suspected of corruption, but was not told of the arrests until they were under way. Mr Godoy took particular offence when federal agents barged into his palace. This jeopardises co-operation between federal and state officials, though the government would argue that it has to prevent tip-offs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif;\">Some opponents accuse Mr Calder\u00f3n of pulling a stunt ahead of a mid-term election on July 5th. To deflect such claims, the government will need to secure convictions, and continue its campaign against narco-politics after the election. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by The Economist: Suspicion falls on politicians FELIPE CALDER\u00d3N has bet his presidency on fighting Mexico\u2019s drug-trafficking syndicates and their penetration of his country\u2019s institutions. 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