Mexican government changes course in drug war

(Vatican Radio) Mexico's new Attorney General is blaming the former Government for multiplying the drug cartels and in so doing, considerably aggravating and worsening the Country's Drug War.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam stresses that the policy of going after drug cartel leaders inevitably led to organized crime splintering into sub groups. So instead of eight main cartels, which the previous Administration identified, there are now as many as eighty of varying sizes.

This Administration explains it is strategically changing course with prevention by proactively tackling homicides, kidnapping and extortion.

The last Government gave up providing a death toll for the Drug War, which is now on the verge of its seventh year. Today's Attorney General says 70,000 have died and 9,000 have disappeared.

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