Whack-a-mole: Mexican Leader’s Crime Effort Fails to Advance

The mole whacker in-chief of Mexico can't get his own Congress to agree to act.

Mexican Leader’s Crime Effort Fails to Advance - NYTimes.com: "President Felipe Calderón’s effort to reorganize local police forces and clamp down on money laundering in the fight against organized crime has suffered a setback with the failure of the Mexican Congress to move forward on the initiatives.

Mr. Calderón had promoted these plans as pivotal to undermining drug trafficking organizations whose battles among themselves and with the authorities have left more than 30,000 people dead in the past four years, Mexico’s attorney general reported this week.

But Congress adjourned Wednesday without voting on any of the significant changes that Mr. Calderón had proposed. A coalition of 33 civic and business organizations expressed their frustration on Thursday in a full-page newspaper advertisement that urged Mr. Calderón, Congress and other governmental bodies to tackle the big changes they think are needed to improve safety." Dec. 17. 2010