Rocky and Bullwinkle… and Chapo

Maybe the Calderon Administration’s “war on drugs” is working… though  not in the way the United States and others would like.

Since instituting a “surge” against drug cartels, President Calderon’s plans are working, only to relocate the cartel’s operations to the Bahamas or US.  A series of Department of Justice studies have concluded that … American gangs are co-opting Mexican cartels to traffic cocaine and marijuana. …

Gang violence has also spiked in Canada. This is “directly related” to crackdowns in Mexico, according to Pat Fogarty, a senior member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, interviewed in this week’s Economist. A spate of recent arrests in Mexico has disrupted the cocaine distribution chain to Vancouver, forcing street dealers to secure their supplies. “The price goes up and the guns come out,” states Fogarty.

(Sean Goforth, Foreign Policy Blogs: Mexico)

Next thing you know, we’ll be reading about Dudley Doright being in the pay of Snidely “Chapeaux” Whiplash and Inspector Fenwick being relieved of his command.

BONUS MEXI-TRIVIA.  Dudley Do-right is perhaps another example of a U.S. attempts to creating a Mexican ally for U.S. policy  that went sideways.  A 1976 history of Mexican animation by Jesús de León records that Producciónes Animadas Gamma SA — which did the animation for Jay Ward Productions   grew out of an early 1950s project headed by U.S. animator Robert Thompkins and paid for by the United States to produce anti-communist propaganda films.

The Mexicans didn’t take anti-commie propaganda all that seriously, and more to the point, it didn’t pay all that well.  Ernesto Terrazas  left Thompkins’ propaganda factory to start Gamma as a commercial enterprise…  and producing the animation for that great subverter of American children, Jay Ward Productions:   creators of Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris Badinov, Natasha Fatale… and Dudley Do-right.

Did Bullwinkle tunnel under the border?