Mexico: Calderon pledges bloody campaign against "terrorism"

Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 11/10/2006 - 23:23.

Responding to the Nov. 6 bomb attacks in Mexico City, Mexico's contested president-elect Felipe Calderon pledged to "work arduously to recover the capacity of the state to face delinquency and terrorism... I have to be honest about this approach, it will not be easy, it will not be fast, it would be pretentious to offer immediate results, it would be an unpardonable boast to say the solution is simple and within easy reach; it will cost us work, time, economic resources, and it will cost us, unfortunately, human lives."

He made his comments in Ixtapa, on the coast of Guerrero, a state bordering conflicted Oaxaca, and where several small guerilla groups are known to be operating. Press accounts noted that Guerrero's Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca of the left-opposition Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) failed to show up for the appearance. (El Universal, Nov. 8)

Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, head of the federal Investigative Sub-prosecutor for Organized Delinquency (SIEDO), asked by a reporter if the bombers have any relation to Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) or the PRD, answered, "At this moment we can say nothing."

But, as we noted yesterday, Government Secretary Carlos Abascal said the federal prosecutor's office (PGR) will follow every "line of investigation"--including the possibility that Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz's political machine carried out the bombings as a provocation.
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