The deaf signal the blind… the DEA and Mexico
Couched in diplomatic niceties, Ambassador Sarakhán is saying what everybody who knows anything about Mexico has been saying for some time. The DRUG USERS have to stop sending money and guns. The training programs are nice, but what’s needed is work from the DEA to control the money and arms flowing to the narcotrafficantes from… where do you think the buyers are?
It’s kind of amusing the way the DEA takes credit for the recent drug bust. It’s like Shakespeare’s grade school teacher claiming that because she taught him to write, she should get credit for his plays. C’mon.
24-March-2007 (my translation):
Maintaining that both the United States and Mexico need to resolve pending issues before they can be described as partners, Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán said he doubted much would happen in the “remaining two years of the George W. Bush presidency.”U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormak ironically commented that the Ambassador is a novice: “He is new and maybe has not had the opportunity to read his textbook. We are clearly working very well with the Mexican government on a subject of importance to both of us.”
Interviewed by the The Washington Post, Sarukhán said that United States contribution of the United States in the fight against narcotics have been “null,” and that “significantly more” cooperation is needed if that fight is to be successful.
Specifically, Sarukhán said that more intelligence information and actions are needed against arms dealers and money laundering.
Sarukhán said that the new Mexican government is looking for a more professional relationship with the United States than the one that existed under the government of Vicente Fox. He added that the Fox-Bush relationship was based on friendship, and at the end of his term, Fox had nothing to show for it.”
President Felipe Calderón is keeping his distance from Bush, “but does not want to send the message that, before there are abrazos and fireworks, the United States needs to demonstrate to Mexico that the relationship produces tangible results. “Then we will be partners,” Sarakhán said.
Sarukhán said, however, that he did not think “much can be done” in reference to the remaining two years of the Bush administration.
Found messagesThe White House budget request for fiscal year 2008 only includes 27.8 million dollars for anti-drug aid to Mexico, as compared to $39 million in 2006. It also includes $388,000 for education and military training.
Undersecretary of State Tom Shannon has indicated that the United States wanted specific information on Mexican needs to fight an effective way against drugs.
In response to the Ambassador, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) administrator, Karen Tandy, said that the recent Mexican seizure of 205 million dollars in cash should be considered U.S. support, since she claimed the seizure was the result of support the DEA provided the Mexican authorities.
The DEA announces courses
While the Mexican ambassador discounted as “null” U.S. support of anti-narcotics detection, the DEA released a report this week, saying that in the last 10 months, it has trained 2100 police officers and civil servants. They received training in detecting and destroying laboratories. According to the report, the recent seizure of more than 205 million dollars from the international network run by ugitive Zhenli Ye Gon, is the fruit of that training.
The DEA reports that training was the result of U.S. preoccupation with the increased amount of methamphetamines coming from Mexico. That training started at the end of May 2006.
Last year the Mexican and United States governments signed an agreement of cooperation that includes training for Mexican officials by the DEA, in the area of detecting “designer drug” production.
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