FOX'S CORRUPTION CRUSADE CLAIMS CUSTOMS OFFICIALS

In Mexico's latest salvo against decades of widespread government
corruption, the country's new customs chief said Thursday he had fired
nearly all of the agency's upper management in a top-to-bottom overhaul.

The drastic move is an integral part of President Vicente Fox's nationwide
crusade against corruption, drug smuggling and organized crime -- an effort
that has blown up in the face of previous administrations that tried it.

Customs director Jose Guzman, who took over the agency in December, said
Thursday that he had fired 45 of the agency's 47 supervisors around the
country -- and expected to fire the remaining two as well -- after finding
"complete disorder" in offices in both border and port cities around the
country.