Trying to stay clean in a very dirty war

Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed 50,000 lives in six years.

On the frontline are army generals who also have to battle a lack of public faith, writes Malcolm Beith

SLAMMING his fist on the desk in his office in Aguascalientes, a city in central Mexico where he is acting police chief, Gen Rolando Eugenio Hidalgo Eddy insists, “Never did I make a pact. Never!”.