Ed Vulliamy reports the convoluted details of the drug war in Tijuana:
It emerged when Alejandro talked to his family, says [his mother] Cristina, that the confessions were coerced, and that the general had played a vile game with his quarry: “The soldiers,” she recalls, “used electric shocks on his eyes and feet, and burned him with cigarettes and lighters to get him to talk."
Earlier reporting on this topic here.