Mexico President: US Help In Drug War Is 'Insufficient'

Posted: 3:56 pm MST February 22, 2011
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon said U.S. cooperation in the fight against drug cartels has been "insufficient."

Calderon said the United States should help by reducing drug use and stemming the flow of automatic rifles to Mexican drug cartels.

Calderon tells the Mexican newspaper El Universal that relations with the United States were strained when secret U.S. diplomatic cables criticizing Mexico's anti-drug strategy were leaked to the public.

Calderon said in the interview published Tuesday that some of the leaked cables show U.S. diplomats' ignorance about Mexico's security situation and that that's why some reports distort or exaggerate.

More than 35,000 people have been killed since Calderon launched a crackdown against drug gangs in December 2006.

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