Calderon Announces New Attorney General
 AP
| | Mexico's new Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, left, to applauds former Mexico's Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, during a ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
Mexico's new Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, assumed his post after his nomination was approved by the Senate on Thursday, promising to wage a "firm, categorical" fight against corruption and take on organised crime groups he compared to the Cosa Nostra.
After being sworn in, Medina Mora, who previously served as public safety secretary, acknowledged that "today, there are signs that society is unsafe," an apparent reference to the wave of executions and kidnappings in several Mexican states.
He also promised to keep Mexican law enforcement clean.
"The actual situation is obligating us to act with force, passion and intelligence against those people who think they can violate the law without consequences, this cannot be tolerated," Medina said at his swearing-in ceremony in Mexico City.
On Thursday, Felipe Calderon, the new Mexican President named a handful of military and security veterans as his top law enforcement aides.
"We consider that all the public servants named by an illegitimate president (Felipe Calderon), are illegitimate servants from an illegitimate government," said Pablo Gomez, the Democratic Revolutionary Party senator. |
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News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2006 
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