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Drug Trafficking In Mexico - College Paper

Drug Trafficking In Mexico

For the past 14 months, agents from the DEA, FBI and U.S. Customs Service who were to form the backbone of the U.S. portion of the force have refused to cross the border because they are not allowed to carry weapons in Mexico.
And at least five senior Mexican officers involved in the program have been arrested on suspicion of taking money from drug traffickers, kidnapping key witnesses or stealing confiscated cocaine.
The units, called Bilateral Border Task Forces, initially were established in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez -- seats of the largest Mexican drug trafficking organizations -- and the northern industrial city of Monterrey. The task forces, with offices in four other north Mexican ...

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told Congress last week, blaming the failure on corruption and lack of security. U.S. officials said the Mexican government failed to finance the task forces and that U.S. agencies had borne the full cost of Mexican operations until last September. At that point, U.S. officials said, Mexico said it no longer wanted U.S. funding and that the task force would be paid for with money confiscated from drug traffickers.

The analysis of the effort's failure comes as some members of Congress gear up to try to overturn the Clinton administration's decision last week to certify Mexico as fully cooperating in the anti-drug war.

These opponents argue that Mexico has not taken significant steps to fight drug trafficking or related corruption.

Every attempt to organize binational law enforcement units along the border has failed since DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in 1985, dramatically changing the relationship between the two nations' ...

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Added: 7/27/2006 12:55:12 PM
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 536
Pages: 2

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