Mexico's former president doesn't want to talk about the bloody drug war he helped start
Mexico's former president doesn't want to talk about the bloody drug war he helped start
Christopher Woody
2hours ago
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon left office almost four years ago, but during his six-year term he presided over one of the most violent periods in modern Mexican history.
Taking office in 2006, Calderon initiated a military-backed crackdown on organized crime that led to peaks in violence between 2010 and 2012.
Calderon left office in 2012, and homicide rates have fallen and risen again under his successor, Enrique Peña Nieto.
Calderon, in the eyes of many, is tied to the growth of violence over the last decade, but it doesn't appear he's interested in discussing it.
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