Guadalajara Reporter

• August 1 President Felipe Calderon said that crime groups have “no limits or moral scruples.” Then, in what many interpreted as a plea of desperation, he asked citizens to make suggestions for altering and improving the current strategy. The first was not news. The second, which asked citizens to believe that any Mexican politician would know fundamental change if he saw it, and if so, would or could implement it, was scoffed at by many candid adults of all classes.

• August 30, security forces (100 soldiers) shot drug trafficking boss, Ignacio (Nacho) Coronel, 56, 16 times, killing him in one of his two “mansions” in a Guadalajara suburb. This was termed a crippling blow to the Sinaloa drug cartel, with which Coronel was associated.

The media characterized Guadalajara as “shocked” — supposedly by both the lethal action and the fact that Coronel was “living fairly openly” in an upscale Zapopan neighborhood. Reporters noted that “one of the criticisms made of (Calderon) is that he favored Joaquin ‘Chapo’ Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel.”

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