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Thursday, April 4, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | How Mexico's Underworld Became Violent |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight Crime |
| Brief: | Given that the PRI was an authoritarian entity, this loss of power is, on balance, a good thing, but one of the unfortunate side effects was the state's growing incapacity to impose itself on organized crime. |
Monday, September 10, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Help Needed to get Mexican Drug Traffickers Out of the Game |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran Mexidata.Info |
| Brief: | To reduce the size of the population living off of the drug trade, Mexico's government needs to ease and encourage the transition away from drug production. |
Monday, August 27, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Public Security |
| Title: | Attack on US Embassy Employees Raises Concerns Over Mexico's Federal Police |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran In Sight |
| Brief: | As Calderon reaches the end his six-year term in office, the federal police seems far from being a reliable nationwide replacement for the armed forces. |
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Title: | Rumored Zetas Split Offers Bloody Prospects for Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight |
| Brief: | Continuing degradation in the Zetas' command structure would likely be a source of violence in the group’s territories in the northeast. |
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Violence in Mexico 2012: A Halfway Report |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight |
| Brief: | On the state level, both Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon saw decreases in murders in June, and much of the violence seems to have transferred to Coahuila. |
Monday, June 11, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Wave of Killings Hits Acapulco, as Gang War Continues without Winner |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran F, InSight |
| Brief: | A wave of murders sweeping the south Mexican state of Guerrero is a grim reminder of the damage wreaked by the long-running conflict between various different groups, most traditionally the Zetas and Sinaloa Cartel |
Friday, June 8, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | News Email, Public Security |
| Title: | Wave of Killings Hits Acapulco, as Gang War Continues without Winner |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight |
| Brief: | A wave of murders sweeping the south Mexican state of Guerrero is a grim reminder of the damage wreaked by the long-running conflict between various different groups, most traditionally the Zetas and Sinaloa Cartel. |
Friday, June 1, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Mexico, Public Security |
| Title: | How Mexico's Police Reform Can Play into Hands of Criminals |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight |
| Brief: | The Mexican state of Jalisco has been forced to suspend a purge of dirty police after criminal groups posted recruitment ads targeting fired officers. |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Mexico, Press Freedom |
| Title: | How Mexico's Journalists Are Failed by the Government |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight |
| Brief: | More troubling than Calderon’s failure to enact the law is what it represents: a lack of genuine interest in protecting journalists, evident across the country at every level of government. |