‘Progress’ in war which has killed 60,000 people

Mexico is making progress in its fight against powerful drug cartels and they are becoming weaker as the crime bosses are killed or jailed, the interior minister said.

Since 2009, about two-thirds of those identified as Mexico’s 37 most-wanted criminals that year have either been killed or face legal action, Alejandro Poire said.

“I think that is an indication that the top level of these organisations is no longer capable of doing what (it was) capable of doing only three years ago,” he told reporters during a UN conference on cross-border crime.