Even as President Felipe Calderon's government touts its arrest record, cases built by prosecutors and police under huge pressure to make swift captures unravel from lack of evidence. Innocent people are tortured into confessing. The guilty are set free, only to be hauled in again for other crimes. Sometimes, the drug cartels decide who gets arrested. Records obtained by The Associated Press showed that the government arrested 226,667 drug suspects between December 2006 and September 2009, the...
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