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Mexico's long-term plan to replicate the country's national financial intelligence unit, Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, or UIF, with new agencies at the state level has failed, a security- and justice-focused civil society group has found after a two-year evaluation. In a 229-page report on the evaluation, Mexico's National Citizen Observatory, or ONC, found that Mexico's 33 UIF-modeled Patrimonial and Economic Intelligence Units, or UIPEs, have done almost nothing to initiate or advance cases or to collect and share intelligence with state prosecutors and other agencies that could result in asset forfeiture. "UIF has taken almost two decades to reach a...