Mexico's War Against The Drug Cartels Suffers A Setback

A tough blow: A police officer stands next to a car that was sliced by a piece of the jet that crashed Tuesday in Mexico City killing two high-ranking Mexican officials.
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Mexican Crash Could Set Back Drug War -- Christian Science Monitor

A jet crash Tuesday in Mexico City killed the interior minister and former deputy attorney general.

Mexico City - Mexico's battle against drug traffickers received a colossal setback Tuesday night, when two high-level officials leading the effort to stem narcotrafficking violence were killed in a plane crash.

The Learjet carrying Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño and José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, the former Deputy Attorney General, crashed in the middle of rush-hour traffic in an upscale neighborhood of Mexico City, killing all eight on board, many on the ground, and injuring dozens of others driving along the busy roadway.

Mexican transportation Secretary Luis Tellez said the crash appeared to be an accident. But the loss of Mr. Mouriño and Mr. Vasconcelos is a decisive blow to President Felipe Calderón's antinarcotics apparatus.

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My Comment: When the top person involved in fighting this war is dead .... it will (of course) impact everything.