Mexican official: Crime killings dropped 26 percent in first

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CNN

[quote] Killings attributed to organized crime in Mexico dropped by 26 percent during the first three months of 2009 compared to the last three months of 2008, a government official said this week.

Monte Alejandro Rubido, the technical secretary of the National Council of Public Security, told reporters Sunday that the number of homicides fell from 2,644 in the last three months of 2008, to 1,960 in the first three months of this year.

He credited a governmental strategy that “is constantly defining new targets and new objectives, adjusting to the structural modifications that the drug cartels favor.â€