Word: mexicanized
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...intelligence resources to track Mexico's increasingly chaotic mix of drug organizations, at least three of which are fighting for control of Juárez. "Adding resources to fight the weapons flow, the bulk currency shipments, and strengthen intelligence are all welcome moves," says John Bailey, an expert on Mexican drug-trafficking at Georgetown University. "The question is whether the Americans are now putting some kind of long-term policy in place," which was often missing from previous Administrations...
...Even the Mexican trucking companies were reluctant to praise the measures. Indeed, right now their trucks are busy blocking city streets to protest high diesel prices set by government oil monopoly Pemex. They have nothing nice to say about their own government. Adolfo Torres, a regional leader of the National Chamber of Cargo Transporters, said the U.S. ban on Mexican trucks shows that the White House is better at supporting its own industries. "The U.S. government is defending its people, closing the border to Mexican transport, while here we have to turn to drastic measures like a strike...
...dispute may be in sight, though. Obama's Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, met with U.S. lawmakers Tuesday, saying he planned to restart the pilot program with sufficient safety requirements imposed on Mexican truckers. Though key American Representatives have yet to sign on to LaHood's initiative, Ruiz said the same day that Mexico would remove the tariffs to reciprocate if the program were reinstituted. "For us, the solution is to go on with the program that we had," he said. "In the moment the United States returns to its commitments, we will eliminate all the tariffs we imposed." Clinton...
...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...
Washington will have at least started that process when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Mexico today for a two-day visit. In response to growing fears both in Washington and along the border that Mexican drug violence is spilling over to U.S. soil - Attorney General Eric Holder recently called the cartels a "national security threat" - the Obama Administration on Tuesday unveiled a border-security plan that will put more than 500 federal agents in border states. More significantly, the plan calls for stronger measures to reduce U.S. narco-demand, cut off weapons-smuggling into Mexico and lasso more...