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| News Date | Monday, December 29, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Sarah Miller Llana | Christian Science Monitor
Mexico City — On Friday, Mexico's government announced that an Army officer was arrested on suspicion that he sold information about President Felipe Calderon's movements to drug cartels, the closest official to the president to be arrested thus far.
It was another embarrassing setback for Mr. Calderon, who has made the battle against drug trafficking a cornerstone of his presidency since taking office two years ago.
He has employed the military to lead the fight, particularly where the local forces are, at best, ineffectual and, at worst, in collusion with drug cartels. He also promised to modernize and clean up the police force with a series of training courses, incentives, and trust tests.
Calderon has been hailed for his gumption, but corruption cases have reached the highest ranks. Now, many Mexicans are concerned that the military could become as corrupt as the law enforcement agencies, and police reform experts say Calderon's strategy is not going far enough to address long-term institutional shortcomings.
"The efforts, which are good, will have no good results if they don't work at the same time on creating institutional accountability systems," says Ernesto Lopez Portillo, a leading expert on police reform and executive director of the Institute for Security and Democracy (Insyde) in Mexico City. |
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