Mexico's Foreign Minister said Monday the startlingly high death toll of her government's all-out war against drug trafficking shows the policy is working. But, she conceded, the campaign has unleashed too much reciprocal violence to be considered a complete success, AP reported. Since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006, his offensive against the cartels that smuggle drugs into the United States has been met with unprecedented brutality, leaving more than 13,500 people dead. Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press that the policy of taking the fight to the traffickers would continue even as the number of Mexicans slain rises, and argued that the «great, majority, immense majority» of victims are drug pushers or gangsters and foot soldiers linked to cartels.
