Drug gangs are winning, not government, Mexicans say
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A majority of Mexicans believe the government is losing its escalating battle against drug gangs, according to a poll published Sunday, writes the Associated Press.
‘Some 53% of Mexicans surveyed by the Mexico City newspaper Reforma said cartels are defeating security forces engaged in a nationwide crackdown. Only 24% said the government is winning, and 23% had no opinion.’
And the New York Times asks whether President Felipe Calderon, currently waging a military campaign against the powerful drug trafficking cartels in Mexico, couldn’t pick up a tip or two from the past:
‘Is there something in the way the Americans and Italians worked together that could be applied to a partnership with the Mexicans? Certainly it is in the interest of the United States to seek such an alliance to stop the flow of drugs, guns and crime across the border, just as the Italian alliance helped stop that flow across the Atlantic,’ writes the NYT.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City