Mr. Blake Mora (left, with Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president) also tried to clean up his country’s corrupt police forces.
(Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press/file 2010)
Francisco Blake Mora, 45; led Mexico’s war on drugs
Mr. Blake Mora (left, with Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president) also tried to clean up his country’s corrupt police forces.
(Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press/file 2010)
Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora, the point man in Mexico’s deadly war on organized crime, with seven other officials in a helicopter crash on the way to a prosecutors’ meeting. He was 45. Mr. Blake Mora was seen by many as the embodiment of the government’s determination to battle the narcotics trade despite a soaring death toll.
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