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Failed Strategies: Mexico Lawmakers Call to Improve Drug Policies with US
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March 22, 2010
 |  | There must be a meeting of commitments in matters like U.S. drug demand and weapon sales.
- Oscar Arce |  | | |
Mexico City – Deputies from different parties agreed on Sunday that the meeting between security cabinets of Mexico and the United States must influence both countries to assume their respective responsibilities during the battle against drug trafficking.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Dep. Humberto Benítez Treviño and president of the Justice Committee said that U.S. government officials’ visit to Mexico is an opportunity for both governments to correct “failed” strategies against organized crime. “There are failed government policies that have been inefficient and have not fulfilled their requirements in terms of security and justice,” he declared. “The visit of U.S. government officials is a great opportunity for both administrations – Mexican and U.S. – to launch concrete and effective actions.”
Benítez said that it is up to both countries to find a solution to the serious problem of insecurity on the Mexico-U.S. border.
Convergence Party Dep. Alejandro Gertz Manero, president of the Navy Commission said that until Mexico and the United States carry out their duties, no progress will be made. “First at home, and then as an alliance,” he said. The next meeting of the Mexico-U.S. High Level Group will be just protocol if there is no genuine commitment to decrease the influence and activities of criminal gangs, he said.
“The cooperation between the countries has not been unsatisfactory, but it is not a matter of Mexico blaming the United States whenever it has a problem. Each country must assume its own responsibilities,” he stressed.
Separately, Alejandro Encinas, coordinator of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) said that the United States must take seriously its obligation to overcome drug trafficking.
He asked the Mexican government to keep an energetic posture and not allow any recriminations from the United States.
“Drug trafficking has two faces. On the one side, the increase of violence and insecurity in Mexico, and on the other side, the origin of weaponry used by organized crime is the United States,” he said.
Dep. Oscar Arce, of the National Action Party (PAN) said in reference to the meeting: “It must be a meeting of commitments in matters like U.S. drug demand and weapon sales.” |
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