16 October 2011

MEXICO : President Felipe Calderon Interviewed.

      NYTIMES/ 2 screen read combined

      President Felipe Calderon insists his country will win the battle against the narcos...but not before his term ends in 2012.
     “What I can say is Mexico will be safer,” he said, “and to have not acted, it would have deteriorated much more.”
     “We would have done it in a more aggressive, much more determined way from the start,” he added.
     An estimated 40,000 have died since Calderon's war against the narcos was launched in December 2006.
     Calderon currently has a 53% approval rating.