26 February 2010

MEXICO: Calderon Defends Drug Gang Crackdown; Denies Favoring Sinaloa.

LA TIMES/    At a press conference, President Felipe Calderon defended his military-led war against ALL drug gangs: "I can assure you that this government has attacked without discrimination all criminal groups in Mexico . . . without taking into consideration whether it's the cartel of so-and-so or what's-his-name. We've fought them all." He called the insinuation that he played favorites "painful" and wondered about the motivation behind it, led by academic Edgardo Buscaglia.