Ex-Intelligence Chief Takes Top Police Post
From Times Wire Reports
President Vicente Fox appointed Mexico’s former intelligence chief, Eduardo Medina Mora, as secretary of public security, the country’s top police post, replacing an official killed last week in a helicopter crash.
Medina, 48, most recently served as head of the Center for Investigation and National Security. Fox told Medina that his primary responsibility was fighting organized crime.
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