Mexico’s detention of local officials marks shift in anti-drug efforts (Los Angeles Times)
Calderon had been focused on a military offensive targeting drug figures and corrupt police. Now officials are being questioned to see how far the cartels have penetrated ‘local political elites.’ The detention this week of more than two dozen local officials in Michoacan on suspicion of aiding a narcotics cartel marks a new tack in Mexico’s bloody drug war, a strategic shift that Wednesday sent …
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