On the second Saturday in August, Mexico City’s local English language newspaper, The News, had the following items of interest:
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Item: “Outspoken general gets ousted after faulting cops.” This included a longer article inside. It seems that the well respected Mexican army general Sergio Aponte, who was placed in control of the north west México border area at the start of the Calderón administration’s war on drugs had been speaking publicly about the rampant corruption of the local police forces in that area (like in Tijuana). He even published notices for the public not to report corruption problems to the local police but directly to the army. Here we have a general who spoke the truth publicly, but for speaking the truth, he has been transferred to duty in the