Wednesday 22 May 2013

Adviser says Mexican Government reducing criminal violence

Óscar Naranjo, the former Colombian National Police chief now advising the Mexican Government on fighting crime, spoke on 21 May of a decline in murders related to organized crime in Mexico, apparently attributable to the actions of the government headed by Enrique Peña Nieto. General Naranjo was reported as saying in Bogotá that there was a 17-18 per cent drop in cartel-related murders since the Peña presidency began on 1 December 2012; he was apparently relying on figures given out by the Mexican interior ministry (Gobernación) and concluded that the Meixcan government was "beginning to respond in an effective manner to social-type phenomena," presumably meaning crime, La Jornada reported on 22 May. Naranjo said there were 4,249 homicides "presumably linked to organized crime" in the four months from 1 December 2012, 685 killings or 14 per cent less than the 4,934 killings of similar characteristics for the same period in 2011-12.

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