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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2005 
Fox: Anti-Crime Strategy Not Working To Plan
 El Universal
President Vicente Fox's office acknowledged Thursday its anticrime operation strategy hasn't produced the "results we expected, or wanted" and vowed to intensify the campaign in the days ahead.
The comments by presidential spokesman Rubén Aguilar were the first official confirmation that violence has worsened since Operation Safe Mexico began June 13, and they buttress concerns expressed by both U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials of a sense of increased lawlessness. They point to escalating violence not just along the U.S.-Mexico border, but across the country in the key states of Guerrero and Jalisco.
No details were offered on how Fox will beef up his campaign.
In Tampico, in Tamaulipas state, Fox said the government's campaign will be "tough, difficult and long" and vowed to redouble efforts to return security to the streets of Nuevo Laredo and other cities impacted by the drug war.
Aguilar's comments come as the U.S. State Department, which has already issued three warnings to Americans venturing into Nuevo Laredo, wrestles with whether to reopen its consulate in Nuevo Laredo. Last Friday, U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza ordered the office shut, blaming increased violence.
Garza and Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal met for an hour Wednesday and decided that the consulate will reopen in the "days ahead," although no definite time frame was offered. |
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