Mexico crime: Mexico's attorney general faces challenges in drug war - latimes.com: "Marisela Morales arrived as Mexico's first female attorney general with high marks for bravery.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton honored Morales as one of this year's 'International Women of Courage,' lauding her as a fearless leader in the fight to bring to justice Mexico's most dangerous criminals.
Morales' supporters in Mexico describe a hands-on prosecutor, empathetic and straight as an arrow, and U.S. drug agents here long have talked glowingly of Morales. A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from 2009 described her ties with American officials as "excellent," in contrast with other Mexican officials who were criticized harshly in the cables and taken to task for failing to wage the drug war effectively. ...
The agency has had trouble making cases stick. Of 106,320 arrests in 2010 for federal crimes of all types, fewer than 30% resulted in formal charges, according to government figures obtained by the daily Excelsior newspaper this year. The remaining cases were tossed out by judges for lack of evidence....
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