++ For the first time since the National
Security Strategy was launched the number of homicides dropped at the national
level according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security
System. Officials said that 56 per cent
of homicides on a national level occur in seven states… Chihuahua tops the list
followed by Nuevo León, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Mexico State, Jalisco and
Tamaulipas.
++ As she headed to the final event closing the
conference on transnational organized crime held in Cancún, Attorney General Marisela
Morales, hailed the achievement that the Americas has, for the first time, come together to create a common front to
fight organized crime.
++ The United Nations representative against
drugs and crime in Mexico, Antonio Maziteli, said that the Los Zetas drug
cartel is the only criminal organization in the world that has changed its
operation mode to control and take over land, using unfettered violence.
++ Guanajuato Attorney General Carlos Zamarripa
said that the leader of the Knights Templar Celaya cell drug cartel arrested
last weekend was identified as Giovanni Martínez García of Morelia, Michoacán. He
was arrested with another three people in the wake of attacks on Sabritas firm
depots in Salvatierra.
