State Struggles to Fire 800 Suspect Agents
Mexico is trying to purge 800 federal agents from an elite force infiltrated by drug gangs, the attorney general’s office said.
A spokesman said the agents were asked to resign after failing psychological profiling tests. However, he said labor laws meant it would be hard to remove some of the agents, despite evidence of corruption.
In 2001, President Vicente Fox founded the federal force to combat drug traffickers. But members of the force, which has about 7,000 agents, increasingly have been linked to criminal acts.
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