Excerpted from yesterday’s daily press briefing. Does anyone know what is going on in TJ?QUESTION: Yes, on Mexico. There were massive protests against crime and impunity in ten cities yesterday. And I was wondering if the U.S. Government is in any way concerned with an increasing level of insecurity in Mexico, and particularly in Tijuana, where a co-editor of a magazine, Zeta, was brutally assassinated last week.
MR. ERELI: Obviously, we condemn these kinds of senseless acts. But I don’t have any specific comment on the events that you described. I think that, you know, obviously, we work, the United States, works closely with Mexico. Certainly, we, in the State Department, have excellent relations with our Mexican counterparts in the areas of cooperation and law enforcement. And those relationships, I think, are -- served both of our countries well. He might be trying to say that it's not necessary for the gummint to have an opinion on everything... |
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