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...breadth of the corruption - including allegations that officers under Mexico's Public Security Minister, Genaro Garcia Luna, were involved in high-profile kidnappings - seem to make a mockery of Calderón's efforts to stamp it out. "This is Calderón's Iraq," says Sergio Aguayo, a security expert at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. "He declared war against the cartels, but he wasn't prepared for the size of the threat the cartels turned out to represent." Many cases in the latest purge, which is indeed called Operation Housecleaning, are based on the testimony...
...Gulf Cartel because of their military skills. The Zetas recently recruited ex-members of an infamous Guatemalan-army commando unit, the Kaibiles, which is believed to be responsible for the growing use of beheading as a terrorizing tactic. "That militarization of Mexican drug trafficking was a watershed," says Sergio Aguayo, a public-security expert at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. "It raised the violence far beyond what anyone ever imagined...
...uninspiring Calderón close López's once-sizable lead in the polls, although he suffered a setback this month when López disclosed that while Calderón was Fox's Energy Secretary, his brother-in-law received a piñata of lucrative federal contracts. Says political analyst Sergio Aguayo: "The fact that López is daring to come to the presidency without his hands tied by privileged interests is something new for Mexico. And it scares a lot of powerful people...
...they right--or does the altered state brought on by caffeine, fatigue and lack of slow-wave sleep merely make them believe they are right? It's a question they might do well to ponder--if only they had the time. --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/ Dallas, Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Simon Crittle/ New York and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
Right now, it's more important that folks like Aguayo buy socks--and shoes, and televisions and airline tickets--than stocks. Despite all the stock-market noise, consumer spending is still the linchpin of the economy. And scared consumers sit on their wallets. "We do not believe we are in a recession. But the economy is vulnerable to a decline, and the consumer is the key to preventing a decline," notes Steve Young, the director of asset allocation at Banc of America Capital Management in St. Louis, Mo. Want to help? Buy something...