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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2005 
Mexican President Appoints Intelligence Chief To Top Police Post
 Mark Stevenson - Associated Press
Mexico City – President Vicente Fox appointed Mexico's former intelligence chief to the country's top police post on Tuesday, replacing an official killed last week in a helicopter crash.
Fox told Eduardo Medina Mora that his primary responsibility as secretary of public safety was the battle against organized crime.
"All of society expects greater efficiency from us ... in the war against organized crime," the president said in announcing the appointment. "We are fighting for Mexico."
Medina Mora, 48, most recently served as head of top intelligence agency, the Center for National Security and Investigation.
Many Mexican border towns and even some southern provinces have been battered in recent years by a rising tide of executions and shootouts fueled by disputes between drug traffickers.
Medina Mora's predecessor, Martin Huerta, and his deputy, federal preventive police commissioner Tomas Valencia, were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash Sept. 21. Authorities have said the crash appears to have been an accident caused by fog and dense clouds in the mountains west of Mexico City.
Mexico will hold presidential elections in July, and Fox is barred from running again, meaning his term will end in December 2006. The president is facing two other vacancies in his Cabinet, as his appointees seek other jobs.
Agriculture Secretary Javier Usabiaga and Energy Secretery Fernando Elizando both resigned this week, both reportedly to run for office – Usabiaga for a state governorship and Elizando for the Senate. |
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