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Mexican federal investigators
MEXICO CITY The office of Mexican attorney general Daniel Cabeza de Vaca lashed out at the mayor of the border city of Tijuana, saying Jorge Hank Rhon has tolerated — and may even have tried to cover up — a municipal police force that is corrupt at all levels and protects drug smugglers.
In an unexpected, statement late Friday night, Cabeza de Vaca's office said it had succeeded in dismantling much of the powerful, Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug smuggling syndicate, capturing more than 30 of its top operatives and hit men since 2005 alone. But uncontrollable
violence persists in the city across the border from San Diego, California, the statement said, because corrupt police officers take bribes to protect drug smugglers and others with links to organized crime.
The statement said that during a July 25 meeting with Hank Rhon and top Tijuana police officials, federal authorities made it clear that "the violence comes from the decomposition of the Municipal Police, in terms of corruption and collaboration with organized crime." During that meeting, they stressed "the need for the police corps, in their totality, to be definitively sanitized."
But the attorney general's office said Hank Rhon and his government have failed to act, thereby tolerating police corruption.
"Now it's up to Jorge Hank Rhon and Municipal Public Safety Secretary Luis Javier Algorri Franco to take blunt and decisive action in order to eradicate corruption and the protection of organized crime," the statement said.
"Continuing to evade responsibility and the obligation to provide security for Tijuana's residents," it continued, "reveals inactivity that up until now denotes complacency or cover up."
A spokesman for Hank Rhon could not be reached for comment late Friday night.
Hank Rhon is the eccentric, multimillionaire son of Jorge Hank Gonzalez, a former Mexico City mayor and one of the behind-the-scenes power brokers of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until losing to President Vicente Fox and the conservative National Action Party in 2000.
The owner of a Tijuana dog track and a nationwide chain of off-track betting parlors, Hank Rhon came from way behind in the polls to win Tijuana's mayorship in 2004. He may eventually run for governor of Baja California state.
But the attorney general's office said Hank Rhon and his government have failed to act, thereby tolerating police corruption.
"Now it's up to Jorge Hank Rhon and Municipal Public Safety Secretary Luis Javier Algorri Franco to take blunt and decisive action in order to eradicate corruption and the protection of organized crime," the statement said.
"Continuing to evade responsibility and the obligation to provide secdenotes complacency or cover up."urity for Tijuana's residents," it continued, "reveals inactivity that up until now denotes complacency or cover up."
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