Mexican president replaces top security official - El Paso Times
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president accepted the resignation Wednesday of his top domestic security official, Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont, and named a former congressman with experience in fighting drug cartels to replace him.
President Felipe Calderon praised the hands-on experience the new federal interior secretary, Jose Francisco Blake, gained serving in the same post at the state level in Baja California, a border state plagued by drug violence.
“In that position, he has played a fundamental role in confronting in a decisive way the problems of violence in that state,” Calderon said of Blake, who will oversee the multi-agency national security council.
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