Development, Not Vigilantes Needed Says Mexico President Pena Nieto Associated Press
go to original April 10, 2013

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday there was no place for vigilantes in the battle against drug violence, insisting the kind of development seen in Japan was the answer.

Pena Nieto, who took office in December, inherited a drug war that had killed some 70,000 people in six years under his predecessor Felipe Calderon.

Fed up with the police's failure to curb crime, armed groups have spread to at least four Mexican states, manning checkpoints, patrolling streets and in one case killing a "suspect" in a shootout.

The president, who is on an official visit to Japan, said the authorities will deal with the violence, including any from vigilante groups, using the force of the law

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