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Mexico: Poll Shows Crime Fears 04-OCT-2008

MEXICO: POLL SHOWS CRIME FEARS

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More than 40 percent of Mexicans said they felt less secure since the start of a crackdown on the drug trade nearly two years ago, according to a poll published....

Mexico: Poll Shows Crime Fears


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York Times, October 4, 2008

More than 40 percent of Mexicans said they felt less secure since the start of a crackdown on the drug trade nearly two years ago, according to a poll published Friday in the newspaper El Universal. Only 25 percent said they felt safer since President Felipe Calderón sent more than 20,000 troops to battle drug cartels nationwide. But half of the respondents in the poll, conducted by Buendía & Laredo, said they believed that Mexico would be safer over the next three years if the government continued the battle. The poll surveyed 999 adults from Sept. 26-29. Violence has soared since the army and federal police stepped up attacks on the cartels. In Tijuana on Friday, five bodies were found in an empty lot and two others were found decapitated, an official in the Baja California state prosecutor's office said. Nearly 40 people have been killed in drug-related violence in the last week in Tijuana.