Vazquez Mota promises tough line in Mexican drugs war

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06 Feb 2012 19:16

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MEXICO CITY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Bidding to become Mexico's first female president, ruling party candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota has vowed to protect families from the fallout of a drugs war that has killed about 50,000 people in the last five years.
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"I was recently asked 'Do you have the courage to confront organized crime?' I want to tell you, I am not afraid! Courage has nothing to do with gender," Vazquez Mota said in Tlaxcala. "For those who dare to touch one of our children ... they will know what we women are capable of. I will use that power to defend every one of your families and your children.
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Vazquez Mota was not thought to be President Felipe Calderon's preferred candidate in the PAN primary race but she has been a firm supporter of his policies, and has promised to continue his campaign against powerful drug gangs.

"There will be no truce, no surrender, to organized crime," she told a cheering crowd of thousands of supporters on a campaign stop in the central state of Tlaxcala on Friday.
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She told the magazine she had only undergone "minimal, essential" cosmetic surgery and never tried marijuana.
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how many bodies do you think need to be counted before they realize that maybe, just maybe it would be more productive to think past the war on drugs and come up with a plan of action to minimize the power of the cartels without using tactics from the war on drugs?


"The war on drugs isn't a war, because wars end."
-Detective McNulty on "The Wire"
 
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