News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Calderón touts fight against crime

Mexico's future at stake, he says
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Photo by JOHN GIBBINS / Union-Tribune
March 17, 2007

TIJUANA – Residents of Tijuana and cities across Mexico should brace for a long and difficult battle against organized crime, President Felipe Calderón said yesterday in his first visit to Baja California since taking office last December.

“Either we act now, or we will lose Mexico,” Calderón told a crowd of business leaders and government officials at the Autonomous University of Baja California. “What's at stake is the future of the nation.”

Ten weeks after launching a major initiative against organized crime in Tijuana, Calderón said “we don't expect short-term results.” But he announced partial success, with the capture of three major kidnapping rings and a 20 percent drop in crime in Tijuana.

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