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Mexico: Drug War Strategy Should be Redefined
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March 24, 2010
| | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hopes American cash can lift President Felipe Calderón's drug war in Mexico. (Daniel Aguilar/Associated Press) | |
Mexico City – Federal deputies of the PRI and the PRD agreed this week that the governments of Mexico and the United States should redefine their strategy against organized crime and must establish a real commitment of responsible coordination.
“The United States must acknowledge, once and for all, that it has to assume their corresponding responsibility, as it is the main consumer market of drugs and the main country that provides weaponry to organized crime,” said Alejandro Encinas, coordinator of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) in the Chamber of Deputies.
Deputy Encinas believes that a coordination mechanism must be established in which Mexico will not accept unilateral decisions because cooperation does not mean the country must be submissive.
Jesús Zambrano, PRD Deputy and Vice-President of the Board of the Chamber of Deputies, said that the statements of the former U.S drug czar, Barry McCaffrey, are utterly worrying. He said that Juarez City was “much more dangerous than Baghdad and Kabul.” Deputy Zambrano said that this remark is a sign that the U.S. might try to intervene. “We are not speculating when we say that we absolutely must not put in jeopardy anything of our sovereignty.”
For his part, Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, Under-Coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), said that the meeting between Mexican and U.S. officials must redefine the strategy against organized crime.
“The battle against organized crime affects us in every possible way, but by no means should we give in to matters that the U.S. would not give in to. Mexico has to defend itself,” Zambrano said.
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