New power to an old interest group in Mexico
Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten Elections"Drug cartels are trying to influence the outcomes of major elections in Mexico by kidnapping and threatening candidates, according to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora...
"The problem is most severe, Medina Mora [at right] said, in the border states of Baja California and Tamaulipas, and in Michoacan, the home state of Mexican President Felipe Calderon..."Besides trying to influence state elections, drug cartels have penetrated deeply at the municipal level, he said...
"'I've heard politicians deny that the narcos are involved in elections, but it's what most people who follow Mexican politics believe is happening,' George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary, said in a telephone interview..."
Labels: corruption, Mexico, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:05 AM
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