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### Viewing cable 07MEXICO1068, ANTI-DRUG OPS EXTENDED TO EIGHT STATES

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07MEXICO1068 | 2007-03-02 13:09 | 2011-06-22 10:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Mexico
Appears in these articles: http://wikileaks.jornada.com.mx/notas/perturbo-a-eu-pasividad-militar-ante-atentados-en-la-frontera

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 MEXICO 001068

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/28/2017
    TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR MX
    SUBJECT: ANTI-DRUG OPS EXTENDED TO EIGHT STATES
     REF: MEXICO 983

    Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Charles V. Barclay, Reasons
    : 1.4(b/d).

    Summary
    -------

    ¶1.  (C) In the first three months of his presidency,
    President Calderon has initiated "surge operations" involving
    the mass deployment of federal police and troops in anti-drug
    operations in a total of 8 of Mexico's 32 states.  When
    measured strictly by the quantity of drugs seized and the
    number of drug traffickers arrested, the operations' results
    have been modest, leading some critics to dismiss them as an
    exercise in political grandstanding.  Nevertheless, even if
    the immediate results of the operations have been modest,
    they have sent several strong, symbolic messages.  First, his
    willingness to stake his prestige on these operations in only
    the second week of his presidency conveyed to the Mexican
    public that he would lend the war on crime more than just lip
    service, a welcome change after the torpor of the latter Fox
    years.  Indeed, his aggressive tactics against public
    insecurity may well explain his relatively high public
    approval ratings, and the political capital he has gained
    through these operations may prove valuable as he seeks more
    fundamental law enforcement reforms.  Moreover, his
    willingness to use the full authority and resources of the
    presidency against drug cartels has sent tremors through
    Mexico's underworld, clearly catching the cartels off guard.
    Although the operations seem to have been effective in
    curbing drug-related killings in the states where there is a
    continuing military presence, organized crime-style killings
    have spiked in at least three formerly peaceful states not
    targeted by the GOM, suggesting the surge operations are
    causing criminal syndicates to shift their operations
    elsewhere.  At this point we will be looking to see whether
    the GOM uses the momentum it has gained from these surge
    operations to attack the very pillars of the illegal drug
    industry, making it economically unsustainable.  End Summary.

    Operation Conjunta Michoacan
    ----------------------------

    ¶2.  (SBU) The anti-drug offensive began on December 8,
    exactly one week after Calderon's inauguration, when the GOM
    sent 6,784 troops and federal police to his troubled home
    state of Michoacan.  Their mission was to eradicate drug
    plantations, intercept drug cargos and wanted criminals,
    execute arrest warrants, and dismantle points of drug
    retailing.  On January 3, Defense Secretary Guillermo Galvan
    summarized the results to date as follows:  5,023 fields of
    marijuana destroyed; 80 arrests; the seizure of 127 firearms,
    32,000 rounds of ammunition, 41 grenades, and US$4,000 in
    cash.  Over half of the troops sent to Michoacan were devoted
    to eradicating marijuana plants, but the number of arrests
    and the fact that none of those detained was a prominent
    trafficker compelled authorities to explain that tracking
    down and arresting drug bosses had not been a priority in
    Operation Michoacan.  However, Public Security Secretary
    Genaro Garcia Luna said the presence of troops in the state
    has reduced drug-related killings by 72 percent.

    Operation Tijuana
    ------------------

    ¶3.  (SBU) One month later, the GOM deployed a force of 3,926
    officers to the border city Tijuana -- home to the cartel of
    the Felix Arellano clan.  One of its first acts was to disarm
    the entire 2,000-strong local police force and send their
    weapons for ballistic tests to determine whether they had
    been used in any crimes.  (Note: The federal authorities
    believe that drug gangs reign free in Tijuana due to
    widespread collusion with local police. End Note.)  In the
    first two-and-a-half weeks of Operation Tijuana, drug gang
    killings fell to less than half of last year's average.  No
    arrests of leading cartel figures were reported.

    Operation Sierra Madre
    ----------------------

    ¶4.  (U) That same day, January 9, a force of more than 9,000
    officers began to arrive in the area known as the "Golden
    Triangle," which straddles the states of Chihuahua, Durango
    and Sinaloa.  The undeclared objective of this effort was the
    capture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who has been deemed
    responsible for much of the inter-gang warfare since his
    jailbreak in 2001.  Guzman's Sinaloa cartel has violently
    disputed control of northern markets with the Gulf cartel,
    headed by the recently extradited Osiel Cardenas.

    Operation Conjunta Guerrero
    ---------------------------

    ¶5.  (SBU) On January 10, a contingent of 7,600 troops and
    police began to take up positions in Acapulco and other parts
    of the state of Guerrero for the forth major anti-drug
    operation.  Both the Guerrero and Sierra Madre operations
    were officially announced January 19.  On January 22 the GOM
    summed up the results in terms that make comparison to the
    January 3 report difficult.  It said that more than 1,500
    hectares of drug crops had been destroyed, more than 32 tons
    of marijuana and 2.2 tons of cocaine seized, and "dozens" of
    arrests made.

    ¶6.  (SBU) The media received the GOM's January 22 report with
    much skepticism, and highlighted that since the launch of the
    Michoacan operation only one prominent drug trafficker had
    been captured:  Pedro Diaz Prada, boss of the eponymous
    cartel, which is chiefly devoted to producing and
    distributing marijuana, and is considerably smaller than any
    of the 5 dominant cartels.  He was arrested on January 16 in
    the southern state of Oaxaca -- where no major anti-drug
    operation was under way.

    Anti-drug operation expands to Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas
    --------------------------------------------- -----------

    ¶7.  (U) Since December, Calderon has ordered a total of about
    27,000 troops and paramilitary police into the six states of
    Michoacan, Guerrero, Durango, Sinaloa, Baja California and
    Chihuahua, where the turf wars between drug gangs claimed
    over 2,000 lives last year.  As of February 18, security
    officials claimed to have eradicated virtually as much opium
    poppy as marijuana in the six states: 3,873 hectares of
    marijuana and 3,324 hectares of opium poppies since the
    offensives started on December 8.

    ¶8.  (U) On January 29 and February 18, respectively, Nuevo
    Leon and Tamaulipas became the seventh and eighth states
    targeted by Calderon's counter-narcotics offensive, with a
    deployment of 3,300 troops and federal police in and around
    the cities of Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and
    Matamoros.  Defense Secretary Guillermo Galvan said the joint
    operation would focus on key points along the main
    trafficking routes.

    Recent successes
    ----------------

    ¶9.  (U) The GOM was able to claim three recent successes, two
    of which took place in the states targeted for massive troop
    deployments. On February 6, in Monterrey the authorities
    announced the arrest of 4 members of a "financial cell" of
    the Juarez cartel and the seizure of US$162,000 in cash. The
    cash seizure was directly related to a tip provided to GOM
    authorities by the DEA.  That same day at Mexico City's
    international airport, police seized a shipment of about one
    ton of cocaine from a commercial aircraft that had arrived
    from Venezuela. This seizure was also the result of
    intelligence provided by DEA. Another ton of cocaine was
    intercepted by army troops as it was being trucked through
    Sonora towards the U.S. border.

    Cartels strike back
    -------------------

    ¶10.  (U) While in the earlier operations there were only a
    few clashes between the government forces and the gunmen,
    since late January the gangs have been striking back. On
    January 27, one police officer was killed and two were
    injured in an ambush in Nuevo Leon. That same day in Yucatan
    (outside the main areas of operations), a police and fire
    station was attacked with grenades. On January 29 in
    Monterrey an officer of the Agencia Estatal de
    Investigaciones (AEI), the state investigative police, was
    gunned down in the street, becoming the fifth police fatality
    of the month.

    ¶11.  (U) Far more serious were two back-to-back attacks
    staged on February 6 in Acapulco by a team of gunmen
    disguised as soldiers: they killed 4 police officers and 3
    civilian employees of the police. The chief prosecutor of
    Guerrero state, Eduardo Murueta, complained publicly that the
    attackers were able to successfully pass themselves off as
    members of the military because the federal government's
    mistrust of state authorities had led to a complete lack of
    coordination between the military and local law enforcement.
    That same day in Sinaloa gunmen murdered the coordinator of
    the state judicial police's elite Unidad Modelo, Jorge Valdes
    Fierro.

    ¶12.  (C) Although the intensity of the inter-gang turf wars
    has diminished since December, they have not ceased, even in
    the areas where the army has been deployed. On February 12 in
    Ciudad Juarez five bodies were found, bearing the "signature"
    of drug gang executions. Moreover, the murder of a prominent
    member of the PRD on January 15 in Durango, the attempted
    assassination of a PRI federal deputy, Horacio Garza, on
    February 19 in Tamaulipas, and the killing of four members of
    a dance band in Michoacan on February 18, show that the
    security situation is not improving despite the GOM's
    large-scale offensives.

    GOM response to recent attacks
    ------------------------------

    ¶13.  (SBU) The security cabinet met twice on February 20 to
    evaluate the counter-narcotics operations underway, as well
    as to consider new strategies in light of the recent attack
    against Horacio Garza.  Defense Secretary Guillermo Galvan
    claimed that the army had already hit the drug gangs hard and
    this was why they were retaliating so fiercely. He also
    warned that more such attacks were likely. Separately,
    Attorney General Medina Mora emphasized that the war would
    take "years" to win and said that more money and resources
    would be needed.  He also said that the GOM did not plan
    additional joint operations in other states, in the interests
    of focusing on the operations currently underway.  (Note: In
    a February 16 meeting with visiting Secretary of Homeland
    Security Chertoff, Medina Mora said the GOM understood that
    surge operations and extraditions were not enough to defeat
    the cartels.  He said that his staff would be seeking to
    understand the cartels from a "microeconomic" perspective, to
    understand how they source and ship contraband and how they
    buy off low level officials, in order to arm a strategy aimed
    at making the cartels economically unsustainable.  End note.)

    The "cucarracha" effect
    -----------------------

    ¶14.  (U) Although the operations seem to have been effective
    in curbing drug-related killings in the states where there is
    a continuing military presence, organized crime-style
    killings have spiked in at least three states not targeted by
    the GOM and that were formerly immune to the menace. (Note:
    The local press has been calling this the "cucarracha"
    ("cockroach") effect, suggesting that the fumigation of pests
    in one area, only moves them to another area.)  Recent news
    reports suggest that the operations may be pushing the drug
    trade into areas which had previously been unaffected by
    drug-related violence, including Aguascalientes, Oaxaca, and
    the Yucatan.  On February 19, the Governor of Aguascalientes,
    Luis Armando Reynoso Fermat, said that drug gangs had been
    building up their operations in the state.  Last week, four
    state policemen were gunned down by a gang in Aguascalientes.
    With few major drug traffickers arrested, the cartels may be
    shifting their operations to states not targeted by federal
    authorities.

    Public opinion
    --------------

    ¶15.  (U) According to a poll conducted by Consulta Mitofsky
    (published on February 14) the public tends to disagree with
    the widespread view that the results of the mass deployments
    are meager. Only 23.2 percent of the respondents said they
    had been a failure, with another 13 percent saying they were
    unable to assess the outcome. Overall, 47.1 percent indicated
    their approval of the operations, and no fewer than 83.9
    percent said it had been right to entrust a key role in them
    to the military. About 75 percent of those surveyed said they
    would like to see their own cities targeted by operations
    similar to those launched since December.

    Comment
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    ¶16.  (C) Some critics have dismissed the surge operations as
    political grandstanding, suggesting that they have yielded
    little in terms of concrete results.  However, we believe the
    message Calderon is sending is important, even if it is
    partly symbolic.  There is little question that he has caught
    the cartels off guard, many of which have had to modify their
    operations.  Moreover, by demonstrating his willingness to
    stake his prestige on aggressive counternarcotics tactics --
    something the public has long wanted -- he may be winning the
    political capital he will need to advance the fundamental
    anticrime reforms he has long advocated.  At this point, the
    real test will be whether Calderon can sustain and
    institutionalize the enforcement pressure he has brought to
    bear, both by carrying out small-scale intelligence
    operations and systematic efforts to attack the economic
    viability of the cartels.

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