At the end of July, the Santa Teresa authorities, in collaboration with Sonora state officials, invited the investigator Albert Kessler to the city. When the news was made public some reporters, especially from Mexico City, asked the mayor, José Refugio de las Heras, if the hiring of the former FBI agent was a tacit acknowledgment that the Mexican police had failed. De las Heras replied that it wasn’t, not at all, that Mr. Kessler was coming to Santa Teresa to give a fifteen-hour professional training course to a select group of students chosen from among Sonora’s best officers and that Santa
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