Mexico's interior minister died of plane crash

Mr. Francisco Blake Mora, prominent face in the fight against drugs in Mexico, with seven more people died when the helicopter carrying them fell near the capital, Mexico City.

Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora. Photo: AFP

Minister of Blake and his colleagues are on a flight from Mexico City to Cuernavaca, Morelos state of its neighbors, to a meeting with prosecutors, AFP quoted government spokeswoman Alejandra Sota Mexico. However, the helicopter disappeared from the intended flight path and a search was immediately conducted.

The television images showed that the fragments of the helicopter in a hilly area, while many other helicopters parked in the nearby area. "Interior Minister, colleagues and the pilot was found dead," spokesman confirmed Sota. Besides Blake minister, three other officials of the Ministry of Interior Mexico were killed, including deputy minister in charge of legal issues and rights.
President Felipe Calderon canceled a trip to Hawaii to attend the summit of APEC leaders since the death of Mr. Blake. Mexico leader said the accident most likely occurred because of bad weather conditions, and promised to conduct a full investigation.

Mr. Calderon, who mobilized thousands of soldiers on campaign controversial crackdown against drug gangs in Mexico, ministers praised Blake was a loyal colleague and close. "Above all else, he was a prominent Mexico with a deep love country, he has devoted until the last moments of life."

Blake comes from a lawyer in the border city of Tijuana, is a senator in the National Action Party (PAN) of President Calderon. He began his reign as interior minister from the date of 14/7/2010. Mexico President Blake selected because of his experience with the security forces and government in the state of Baja California, where he was born. The state is also located on transportation routes and major drug trafficking in Mexico.
Mexico interior minister tough to keep perspective in the war that President Calderon launched to combat gangs and organized crime. "There is no ambiguity here at all. There is no room for compromise or hesitation in this war," Blake said in a statement following the recent death of a mayor in the western state of Michoacan.

Blake, 45, was interior minister killed Monday in a plane crash in the tenure of President Calderon. More than three years ago, on 04.11.2008, the late Minister Juan Camilo Mourino was killed when a small plane crashed in Mexico City. Together these are killed in anti-drug prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos and 12 other people.

Many people believe that there is a conspiracy behind the accident that killed a total of 14, but investigators said pilot error belongs. There is a coincidence that the last message of the secretary of Blake on his Twitter page is related to the Mourino, on the occasion of his 3 years on death.

From Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed the commitment to close cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico during this difficult period, when he exchanged with his phone Calderon immediately after the death of Blake minister. U.S. support for Mexico's crackdown campaign against gangs and organized crime. Since 2006, the campaign sparked a wave of violence that killed about 45,000 people Mexico.

The field where the helicopter fell. Photo: Sky