Mexico says bloodshed shows progress vs drug cartels





REUTERS

9:34 a.m. May 28, 2008

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's attorney general said Wednesday a surge in drug gang killings, marked by murders of police and decapitations this month, showed an army crackdown on cartels is working.
Attorney General Medina Mora said he saw no quick end to the violence and saw the army battling drug gangs in trafficking hotspots around the country for another two years.



AdvertisementDrug violence has spiked dramatically this year as rival cartels fight over smuggling routes into the United States and shoot at the federal police and troops President Felipe Calderón has deployed against them since December 2006.
“We have curbed the power of these organizations, reducing the number of their hitmen, bosses and weapons,â€