Mexico’s Missing Consensus on Fighting Crime: Enrique Krauze
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Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico, battered by an interminablenarco war, hasn’t found a firm consensus on how to combatorganized crime.
In Spain, which has been plagued by the violence of theBasque group ETA, such a consensus was slow to develop, untilthe escalating cruelty of the attacks drove the majority to joinor support huge, public demonstrations against the separatists.This rejection helped cripple the ETA and drive the organizationto its recent repudiation of terrorism.