AROUND MEXICO
AROUND MEXICO
Fox appoints new public safety chief
President Vicente Fox appointed Mexico’s former intelligence chief, Eduardo Medina Mora, as secretary of Public Safety, the country’s top police post, replacing an official killed last week in a helicopter crash.
Medina Mora, 48, most recently served as head of the top intelligence agency, the Center for National Security and Investigation.
Fox told Medina that his primary responsibility was the battle against organized crime.
Drug prosecutor slain in ambush
MONTERREY - Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a federal drug prosecutor, the latest in a surge of shootings linked to organized crime in northern Mexico, police said Tuesday.
Hitmen strafed Miguel Angel Esquivel’s car as he drove through the outskirts of the city about midnight Monday, killing him instantly, the state prosecutor’s office said.
Source: chron.com
