December 4, 2010

Leaked US cable: Mexico feared it could lose parts of the country to cartels

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Associated Press

Leaked US cable: Mexico feared it could lose parts of the country to cartels

A Mexican Cabinet minister told U.S. officials late last year that he had a “real concern” that Mexico would lose control of parts of the country to drug traffickers, according to a U.S. State Department cable released Thursday by WikiLeaks. — Undersecretary for the Interior Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez, who oversees domestic security, “expressed a real concern…”

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