It’s not unusual in Mexican law enforcement circles for the left hand not to know what the right hand is doing. But when information that might be prudent for others to have is purposely withheld, the results can be disquieting.
Such a scenario played out last weekend when federal police officers raided a cartel hideout in Tonaya in southern Jalisco (see story page one). Six people died in the shootout with alleged members of the Nueva Generacion Cartel. Within moments of its outcome associates of the cartel began to spread out onto the streets of Guadalajara and others parts of the state, torching cars and buses in what senior officers say was a well-planned diversionary tactic to allow one of the cartel’s leaders to escape.
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