The Unity of Society and Government will Protect Mexico from Crime: EMMI
 Presidencia de la República
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Mexico City - During President Felipe Calderón's administration, over 21 billion doses of drugs have been confiscated, together with 11,000 weapons and 1,402 grenades, while 18 drug laboratories have been dismantled; 22,000 alleged criminals have also been arrested.
The challenge of security is a shared challenge between society and government, which we will overcome with firmness, persistence and without resting, until we recover the confidence and tranquility we deserve to live in, said Attorney Geneal Eduardo Medina Mora, during the regional address he gave in Chihuahua as part of President Felipe Calderón’s Second State of the Union Address.
During the second year of this administration, Federal Government "has focused its efforts on ensuring that all Mexicans, regards of their social status of geographical location, can live better." For this reason, it has maintained its commitment to guaranteeing the security of people, families, communities and firms throughout the country, he declared.
In this context, explained Medina Mora, since the start of President Felipe Calderón, efforts have been redoubled to guarantee security and the rule of law to combat all forms of crime, particularly organized crime and restore law and order and the public spaces that criminals have taken away from citizens.
Since the first day, he explained, President Felipe Calderón implemented a national security strategy involving the collaboration and joint responsibility of the three orders of government in dealing with the lack of law and order and organized crime using operating measures: integral care of crime prevention; joint collaboration for purging, professionalizing and equipping police with knowledge, training and state of the art technology as well as effective mechanisms for citizens' denunciations, in order to obtain unprecedented results.
A palpable sign of this new strategy are the Joint Operations, which, in conjunction with state and municipal governments, have managed to arrest over 22,000 alleged criminals, confiscating over 11,000 weapons and dismantling 18 laboratories where drugs were once produced.
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora explained that at the end of 2007, 23 tons of cocaine were confiscated, equivalent to 470 million doses, the largest ever in the fight against drug trafficking. During this administration, the amount of cocaine confiscated totaled 61 tons, equivalent to 1,230 million does, with an estimated market value of $769 million USD.
The Attorney General also reported that the authorities prevented the commercialization of 2,991 tons of marihuana and have eradicated 31,262 tons of illegally cultivated marihuana, preventing 20.253 billion doses, with an estimated value of $3.240 billion USD from reaching US and Mexican consumers.
During these 21 months, he explained, government has confiscated 42,325 kilos of substances used to produce metamphetamine. In addition, 20,006 weapons, 1,402 grenades, 9,798 land vehicles and 285 airplanes were confiscated from criminals.
A total of 140 persons have been extradited to other countries, 134 of which have been extradited to the United States of America.
In foreign policy matters, for the first time ever, the US government acknowledged the importance of illegal drug use in its territory, together with the smuggling of weapons and dollars to Mexico as two of the main causes of the development of gangs of criminals, and a regional front comprising the United States, Central America and Mexico was created as a result of the Merida Initiative.
In order to reinforce this initiative, a New Police Training Model has been implemented between federal corporations, while progress is being made in implementing Platform Mexico and the Single Criminal Information System.
A new Federal Police Command Center was built and the most important reform of public security and penal justice was promoted since the passage of the current Political Constitution, which will radically transform the institutions responsibility for law and order and administering justice, he said.
After guaranteeing security and the rule of law as integral parts of modern democracy, it is essential to have the firm basis of a stable, growing economy to produce the jobs society and regions demand.
In this respect, Attorney General Medina Mora, accompanied by state governor José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, explained that during this administration, over $480 billion pesos were invested in infrastructure in 2007, an amount that is expected to exceed $500 billion pesos in 2008.
As part of the Living Better strategy, the Oportunidades Program has benefited 5 million families, while over a million and a half persons over 70 living in the countryside are receiving financial assistance in the form of cash.
"Federal Government is convinced that it is possible and desirable for Mexico to be a fully developed country, in which law and good government prevail." A country whose inhabitants live in an environment of harmony and security, enjoying individual, social, economic, political and cultural rights," declared Eduardo Medina Mora.
Our work is committed to this vision and we are certain that together, society and government will be able to achieve this, declared the Attorney General.
Source: Media and Communications Unit Attorney General’s Office (PGR). |
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