Thread: Garza: U.S. Willing to Help

http://www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impr ... abla=miami

Garza: U.S. willing to help

BY NATALIA GÓMEZ QUINTERO/EL UNIVERSAL
June 25, 2005

In a letter to media, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said that security along the two nation's borders is the shared responsibility of both countries.

In response to a wave of drugrelated killings in the north that has left an estimated 640 people dead this year alone, top Mexican officials in recent weeks have called on the United States to do more to help.

"I have assured Mexican officials that we are willing to share the responsibility for the region's security, whether it be through exchanges of intelligence or through assistance to Mexican agencies charged with upholding the law," Garza's letter read.

Garza said he recognized the efforts of President Vicente Fox's government: In the recently launched Operation Safe Mexico, thousands of federal agents have flooded hard hit areas such as Nuevo Laredo and Sinaloa. However, he warned that the eradication of corruption and violence fueled by organized crime will not disappear overnight. He recommended that the U.S. State Department keep a travel advisory warning of possible danger in the border region.

The massive deployment of police and military has failed to halt the killings.

In Nuevo Laredo Friday, authorities found the body of a man in a pile of garbage who had been burned and shot to death. No arrests have been made. Another dead body was found in Nuevo Laredo on Thursday.

Patricia Olamendi, an official with the Foreign Relations Secretariat, said Friday that the continued murders have hurt Mexico's image internationally.

She called on the nation's political parties to abandon partisan sparring on the security issue and work together to help find a solution.

Operation Safe Mexico????
Foxie might have a possible career as a stand-up comic.


Mexico sure is a great place.

In a letter to media, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said that security along the two nation's borders is the shared responsibility of both countries.

"shared responsibility of both countries"

Right. They control THEIRS and WE control OURS. With both doing what they are supposed to be doing...alas...their might be law and order restored to both sides of the border and by default have a safe border.

"I have assured Mexican officials that we are willing to share the responsibility for the region's security, whether it be through exchanges of intelligence or through assistance to Mexican agencies charged with upholding the law," Garza's letter read.

"that we are willing to share the responsibility for the region's security"

I sure hope he's not talking about giving them money.

640 killed in Nuevo last year...hmmmm....and Bushey Boy thinks Mexico can secure USA from their borders through his Security Prosperity Partnership with Mex and Can?

I think NOT!!