Mexico Demotes Senior Police Officials in Graft Crackdown

Posted on: June 26th, 2007
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“The heads of federal police agencies in all 32 Mexican states and 250 other high-ranking officers were demoted Monday in one of the broadest corruption crackdowns in this country’s recent history.

The demotions are the latest step in President Felipe Calderón’s campaign to fight drug cartels, which are blamed for more than 1,000 execution-style killings this year and have been largely undeterred by Mexican military offensives against their strongholds.”

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