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...diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan, the DEA, the FBI and even...
Washington officials were stunned. Mexico is the conduit for as much as 75% of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. The two-year-old government of President Ernesto Zedillo, which succeeded a regime peppered with charges of corruption, had made great efforts to be seen as a credible partner in the war against drugs. Why then would Zedillo fail to send an early warning when Gutierrez was first suspected--and as a result embarrass the Administration? The timing was especially unfortunate. The arrest took place less than two weeks before Clinton is to send his annual report to Congress certifying...
According to a senior Mexican official, however, Zedillo and Cervantes had huddled after Feb. 6, deciding not to inform Washington--and thus risk Clinton's wrath--until a solid case developed against Gutierrez. Zedillo may have seen a chance to flex some badly needed muscle and make sure Mexico's generals understood that the impetus to nab Gutierrez came from him--and not the U.S. In any case, Zedillo does not much care for certification. It is, he told Time, "a rather improper procedure, not very consistent with the principles of international...
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who came to power vowing to fight corruption, now finds himself in the position of explaining away charges of impropriety lodged by a member of his political opposition. The charge is small potatoes in the world of Mexican politics, but nonetheless made the front page of Friday's New York Times and amounts to the first smudge on Zedillo's squeaky-clean reputation. Congressman Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, an independent who was formerly a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, says Zedillo permitted a questionable $7 million payment to corn-flour giant...
...timing of Garcia Abrego's arrest has raised questions. On March 1, Clinton is due to grade or "certify" Mexico for its antinarcotics efforts, and Zedillo has been accused by Mexican and U.S. critics of conveniently offering up Garcia Abrego to ensure that Mexico is treated to a favorable review. Since Garcia Abrego has been losing ground for a couple of years, the theory goes, his arrest is really only a token, while more powerful drug barons are allowed to operate. Yet Zedillo does seem to be more sincere about curbing corruption and the drug trade than some...