The Mexican Security Council announced on Friday it would strengthen information and intelligence strategies to progress in fighting drug traffic and the organized crime.The decisions by that authority were adopted in a meeting presided over by Government Secretary Juan Carlos Mouriño, under the impact of Edgar Milan's assassination on Wednesday, which made him the third man in charge of the national Federal Police structure.
After analyzing the national situation, where executions of police agents and Security Secretary's Office leaders by drug dealers have increased several times over, the council agreed to extend operations in several states of the country.
Sending new contingents of federal agents and Army forces to Baja California and Chihuahua states, and involving the navy for the first time in the joint operations are among the measures to be implemented.
Other territories on which they focused their attention were Sinaloa and Oaxaca, according to official information about the meeting, in which Government, National Defense, Navy, Attorney General's Office, and Public Security ministers participated.An official statement said all institutions promised to reinforce coordination to fight the scourge of the organized crime.
Mouriño highlighted the government's will to increase the number of security agents to reinforce operations currently developing in different national areas against the so called drug cartels.
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