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...President Bush signed the Mérida Initiative, which would provide $1.4 billion to Mexico and other countries over three years to help combat drug smuggling and violence. So far, only $456 million has been approved and President Obama has not yet said whether he plans to follow through on the remaining billion dollars. But money or no money, the drugs keep coming, and they keep coming fast...
...spat, which will at least give Secretary of State Hillary Clinton something other than drug gangs to discuss during her visit to Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday, was kicked off when President Barack Obama signed a spending bill on March 11. Embedded in the bill was a clause that prohibits funds from being used to "implement, continue, promote or in any way permit" a two-year-old pilot program that allowed some Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. Pressure for the clause had come directly from the Teamsters, who have long opposed competition from the Mexican 18-wheelers...
...pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
...convenient and long-standing tradition south of the border is for Mexico to blame its problems on the U.S. It can often be justified when the matter is the drug-trafficking violence now terrorizing much of Mexico, which is powered in large part by the insatiable gringo demand for drugs, the relentless flow of high-powered weapons from the U.S. and the just-as-chronic laundering of drug cash north of the border. As Washington hyperventilates over the threat of Mexico's narco-carnage spilling into the U.S., it can't ignore America's role in its neighbor's trafficking...
...same time, Mexican officialdom has always used American myopia as an excuse to blow off its own epic failings. The most glaring, of course, is Mexico's police corruption and lack of rule of law, which has given the drug cartels free rein and too often turned Mexican law enforcement into narco-collaborators. Perhaps the only way to shame Mexican politicians into owning up to that national sin - and finally doing something about it - is for the U.S. to confront its own shortcomings. (See pictures of Mexico's narco-carnage...