Thread: Mexico Says It Will Run Anti-Drug Ops Under U.S. Plan

Mexico Says It Will Run Anti-Drug Ops Under U.S. Plan
Reuters
Aug 11, 2007



Mexico City - Mexico will not allow American agents to run anti-drugs operations south of the border under a new plan for U.S. aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Mexico's attorney general said.

Mexico, historically sensitive about U.S. interference in its affairs, is in talks with Washington about an aid package to help it fight increasingly violent drug gangs.

Attorney general Eduardo Medina Mora said he welcomed aid in the form of cash and surveillance equipment but that Mexicans would run all crime fighting functions.

"There will be no intervention in operations by external institutions," he told Mexican radio.

Mexican drug gangs fighting for control of trafficking routes to the United States, have killed around 1,500 people this year.

President Felipe Calderon wants more help from the United States, the main market for the South American cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines that pour across the border.

"The level of cooperation we've had in the last few years doesn't come close to matching the scale of the problem," Medina Mora said.

Calderon has deployed some 25,000 soldiers to try to regain control of lawless areas of Mexico where cartels have had an almost free rein.

Under the new plan, which may be announced at an August 20-21 presidential summit in Canada and is subject to U.S. Congressional approval, the Washington could provide radar equipment, phone tapping technology and technical training.

The package under discussion is being compared to an aid program to Colombia, which has absorbed $4 billion since 2000.

In Colombia, U.S. troops have trained the Colombian army and defense department contractors flew planes to destroy crops used to make narcotics.

It would be difficult for U.S. security forces to operate so openly in Mexico, where feelings still run high over a 19th century war when the United States grabbed large parts of Mexican territory, including Texas and California.

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It would be difficult for U.S. security forces to operate so openly in Mexico, where feelings still run high over a 19th century war when the United States grabbed large parts of Mexican territory, including Texas and California.

It was bought and paid for not GRABBED!

So the plan is to take the cash and then not do anything about the drugs. Figures since the corrupt government is making a fortune off of the drug trade.

And I just love how Mexico will not tolerate any meddling or interference in their country or government operation from the U.S. They certainly have no compunction about meddling and interfering in ours, now do they?

I say we forget Mexico....enforce our laws with the only thing being given them is all of their illegals back along with the anchor babies. Adios, hypocrites.

On Lou Dobbs this week he said it is not a good idea for hundreds of millions of dollars to go to Mexico for it will end up in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. He said to take action against this now and call!

What do the Mexican Drug Lords need more Apache helicopters to moniter the drug plantations they are growing in our national parks?