Mexico’s Calderon says he was target of assassination threat -report

Source: Reuters

Mexico’s Calderon says he was target of assassination threat -report
- Reuters
Story Dated: Sunday, August 19, 2012 23:0 hrs IST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon was warned during the early years of his administration of a credible threat to assassinate him while he was in the presidential jet, Mexican media reported on Sunday.

According to reports in major newspapers, Calderon said on Saturday that security advisers told him before a trip within Mexico that they had information about the assassination attempt, although he took the plane anyway.

The trip went smoothly, but Calderon was concerned enough to record a video message for his children before the trip in case he was killed, the reports quoted him as saying. Calderon has spoken before about threats he received after launching a war against drug cartels, but never in any detail.

"Before the trip I recorded a message for my children in which I assured them that in case something happened to me, they should be sure of knowing that their father was carrying out work which he felt to be necessary," Universal newspaper quoted him as saying during a private party for his 50th birthday.

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