| | |  Editorials | Issues | August 2008 
Plan Mexico and the U.S.-Funded Militarization of Mexico
 DemocracyNow
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Video broadcast of a report from Mexico produced by “Inside USA” (Al Jazeera English) on the U.S. role in Mexico’s growing drug war.
As the WTO talks collapse, we turn now to the country perhaps most profoundly impacted by U.S. trade during the neo-liberal era. In the fifteenth year since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed, Mexico continues to fall short of the lofty gains that backers of neo-liberal globalization had promised. Today, polls show that by a two to one margin, Mexicans believe they’re on the losing end of NAFTA.
The latest U.S. initiative in Mexico is also attracting scrutiny. Last month, the Bush administration and the Democratic-led Congress agreed on “Plan Mexico”, a four-hundred million-dollar program to fight Mexican drug trafficking.
Much like its predecessor “Plan Colombia”, the Mexico initiative has been criticized for emphasizing militarization and security rather than addressing social and economic causes. The bulk of the money will go to military contractors and Mexico”s armed forces. The final version of the bill also omits several key provisions that would have linked funding to human rights. |
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