Monday, December 26, 2011

How Juarez, Mexico, Police Chief Is Controlling the "Narco Dream"

Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:06











Juli?n Leyzaola, 51, is Mexico?s most renowned and controversial policeman, reports the New York Times. As violence has declined in his city of Ju?rez, with murders down by around a third over the last year, complaints of human rights abuses by the police have increased, including some against the chief himself.

?We?re seeing the results we asked for,? said Federico Ziga, president of the Ciudad Ju?rez restaurant association. ?Not everyone agrees on the cause, but the results are there.? Leyzaola tells the Times he has long aimed to destroy the ?narco dream? by showing that the authorities could take away ?their guns, their cars, their drugs, their money.? Like a boxer or wrestler, he treats his tough-guy image as a necessary tactic. In Tijuana, he punched a dead cartel gunman in the face as bystanders watched. There and here, he insists on calling criminals ?mugrosos,? or slimeballs.

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Source: http://www.thecrimereport.org/archive/2011-12-mexican-crime-fighter

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