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Mexico Senators: Drug War Aid Should be Monitored
 Victor Mayén - The News
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March 03, 2010
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Mexico City – The Mexican Senate reproached the United States government on Tuesday for conditioning its funding to Mexico in their joint fight against drug trafficking.
Senate Coordinator Carlos Navarrete, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), expressed his disapproval of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.
He added that the actions carried out by both governments should be overseen.
Requesting that the administration of President Felipe Calderón should show positive results is inappropriate because Mexico is a sovereign country, he said.
“I think that the Mexican government should not accept, under any circumstances, conditions or requirements that are related to the decision-making of the Mexican government,” he said.
“I am in favor of continuing cooperation agreements and receiving a financial contribution from the United States, as long as there are no conditions that give the impression that decisions made by the Mexican government are subject to decisions made by the Congress or the government of the United States,” Navarrete explained.
The president of the Senate’s Justice Committee, Alejandro González Alcocer, of the National Action Party (PAN), said that it is unacceptable that the United States conditions its support to Mexico, when the latter country itself is part of the problem.
According to the U.S. government, the aid for Mexico will be destined for the training of civil police forces so that they can carry out tasks that are currently the responsibility of the Mexican Army, including the disbanding of drug cartels and confiscation of drugs.
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