Crackdown on drugs.

Government suspended some constitutional rights in five cities along Mexico's border as it cracks down on drug growers and traffickers, reports AP (Aug. 31, 2006). A two-week state of prevention, allows the government to suspend the rights to carry firearms and hold demonstrations and meetings, while expanding rights to conduct searches for weapons, poppy crops, and heroin and other drugs in the border cities of Ixchiguan, Concepcion Tutuapa, San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Tajumulco and Tejutla. Police officers, 21 prosecutors, two judges and 1,000 military troops will participate in the operation. The poppies are cultivated in Guatemala and transformed into heroin in laboratories on the Mexican side of the border.