President Apologizes for Americans Hurt in Ambush Dudley Althaus - Chron.com
go to original August 29, 2012

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon apologized Tuesday for the ambush and wounding - apparently at the hands of federal police officers - of two Americans attached to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

Saying he "deeply lamented" the incident, Calderon promised U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne that Mexican prosecutors would get to the truth of Friday's attack, which until now both governments have shrouded in vagueness and secrecy. A Mexican judge Monday ordered 12 federal officers jailed for 40 days pending investigation into the attack.

"We can't permit these things to happen," Calderon said, at a forum on civic groups that work to improve Mexico's police forces and public security. "They are being fully and rigorously investigated."

Calderon chalked up the detained federal police officers' involvement either to "negligence, a lack of training or because of untrustworthiness, complicity."

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