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No US Agents Among Mexico's Antidrug Troops: Ambassador
 Agence France-Presse
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February 25, 2010
| | US ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, speaks in 2009. Washington does not have agents taking part in Mexico's stepped-up war against drug-trafficking, Pascual said Wednesday, rebutting a news report to the contrary.
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Washington – Washington does not have agents taking part in Mexico's stepped-up war against drug-trafficking, the US ambassador to Mexico said Wednesday, rebutting a news report to the contrary.
"I want to be very clear: The US does not have operative agents in Mexico," Carlos Pascual said at a bilateral meeting on drug enforcement held at the US State Department.
Pascual said, however, that the United States and Mexico have increased their cooperation in the war against drugs in other ways, and are in the process of creating a bilateral office in Mexico City.
"We are going to have US and Mexican professionals sitting side by side working on a-day-to day basis on addressing every single aspect of law enforcement and drug trafficking and issues related to drug-trafficking," he said.
"What we have are individuals who are technical advisors who can share information and intelligence, experiences from the US," he said.
His remarks came after a report Wednesday in the Washington Post said US agents would embed in Mexican antidrug units to help pursue drug cartel leaders.
Mexico's three-year clampdown on organized crime, involving some 50,000 security forces across the country Mexico, has been accompanied by a spike in drug-related violence, in which more than 15,000 people have been killed.
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