Cartel crackdown: Mexico's fight against organised crime

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  Claudia Shanebam came to power in October promising to tackle Mexico's entrenched murderous gangs.

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  Her record was convincing.

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  As mayor of Mexico City, she curbed violence by using data and improving policing.

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  She has started applying similar methods on a national scale.

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  Crime-weary Mexicans welcomed the intelligence-led crackdown.

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  Ms. Shane Bowne has enjoyed high approval ratings,

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  but her assault on the gangs has always had a second audience,

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  America's President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans,

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  who see Mexico as a source of their country's problems.

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  Ms Shanebaum is bent on convincing Mr Trump that she has the gangs in hand.

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  Officials in Washington have been considering drone strikes on Mexican drug labs and cross-border raids by special forces without consulting Mexican officials.

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  That would sorely diminish Ms Shanebaum at home.

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  Short of military action, Mr Trump has not been holding back.

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  Citing the need to stem flows of migrants and fentanyl into the United States,

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  his government in February designated Mexican gangs as foreign terrorist organisations and slapped tariffs on Mexican exports.

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