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Mexico's Anti-Crime Agreement Fails to Meet Goals
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June 18, 2009
 |  | The advances everyone expected are just not there.
- Ana Franco |  | | |
The National Agreement for Security, Justice and Legality was signed over 10 months ago by authorities and civil organizations. Thus far, however, only 10 of the 74 accords inked in the document have been complied with.
Ana Franco, president of association Mexico United Against Delinquency blasted federal, state and municipal authorities for not having implemented to improve procedures to have a safer nation.
The advances everyone expected are just not there, Franco said
She came about with figures.
In August 2008 the number of Mexican families that had been victims of a crime was 18 percent, but just in the past few days this figure rose to 24 percent. Furthermore, she stated that nearly 75 percent of the population feels that insecurity is worse.
On the increase is the so-called "kidnapping industry" which Franco said that last December national statistics registered 820 claims of sequestering, a 37.5 percent increase over 2007, and in 2009 kidnapping crimes increased by eight percent.
She saida that is "a great worry for the society that being the kidnapping one of the crimes which indexes have risen exponentialy, exists so few speed and will on the part of the authorities to generate schemes that allow it's combat."
Ana Franco pointed out that in the first 100 days after the agreement was signed only five objectives had been complied with mainly because most police authorities were not familiar with the terms of the agreement.
She said that among commitments made at signing and are still pending are the formulation and publicizing of a national strategy against money laundering; the law initiative to regulate cash transactions; the depuration and strengthening of police departments and improved legal proceedings, among others.
President Felipe Calderón has touted that over the past few months of his Administration the principal leaders of drug cartels have been put in jail.
This, however, Franco said, was insufficient. "We can say that the agreement is not enough, is insufficient, and the three levels of the government keep careless mechanisms an procedures for an enhanced public safety."
" We call with energy to the authorities in order that they meet the goals, and equally we do it to the citizens, in order that they sanction them in the best way that the democracy a allows: in the elections." said the president of Mexico United Against Delinquency. |
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