Dec 3 2008 – NACLA News
John Ross
The fiery November 4th crash of a private Lear jet here not a mile from Los Pinos, the Mexican White House, that killed President Felipe Calderón’s closest collaborator Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño was largely buried by the U.S. press, coming as it did on Election Day USA and the subsequent eruption of Obamamania.
As Interior Secretary responsible for domestic security, Mouriño who had just met with outgoing U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to map out bilateral drug war strategies, was the second most powerful official in Mexico.
Also killed in the crash that took a total of 19 lives was Mexico’s former drug czar Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, himself a frequent assassination target for Mexican drug gangs. Last spring Vasconcelos was replaced as top dog at the SIEDO (”Sub-prosecutor for Special Investigations into Organized Crime”), which he had directed for eight years and appointed special drug war advisor to Calderón.
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