Cockroach Effect: Mexico City Tightens Security to Keep Out Drug Traffickers Agence France-Presse
go to original July 4, 2014

MEXICO CITY - Mexicans call it the cockroach effect - drug traffickers hit by security forces in one state skittering for refuge in another.

Now, the sprawling megalopolis of Mexico City is tightening security to head off such flight.

Fears rose this week because of a deadly clash that left 22 people dead as security forces fought suspected traffickers from the La Familia Michoacana cartel in the town of Tlatlaya, 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the capital and bordering Michoacan and Guerrero states.

Those fears prompted the mayor of Mexico City, Miguel Angel Mancera, to ask the army, navy and federal police to step up intelligence operations on the outskirts of Mexico City, which has a population of nine million plus 11 million more in its surrounding suburbs.

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