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Heriberto Vizcarra on "Mexico: living with drugs"

Heriberto Vizcarra — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:17:02 +0100

"Mexico has a 3,000-kilometre border with a power avid for narcotics".
Actually, it is the US side of that border the one with power avid for narcotics, or at least has been so.
Narcotics consumption has, recently, raised in Mexico, according to reports from authorities and non-profit organizations due to the stronger control of the U.S. over its border. Nevertheless, it has been the american addiction and buying power that has fed the organized crime in Mexico.

jayr on "Mexico: living with drugs"

jayr — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:30:30 +0100

It would be nice for Mexico to take a serious stance on drugs while they are trying there is still a lot of corruption in a country where few people are making enough to support their families drugs, are an easy alternative as well as coming to America illegally. Both of i am against. Not just Mexico's drugs but the other cocaine and heroin coming through from south America.
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Mexico: living with drugs, Sergio Aguayo Quezada

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Twenty years and the death or disappearance of tens of thousands were necessary for the Mexican state to seriously consider the challenge launched by organised crime networks that were capable of imposing their law in 40% of Mexican territory. In January 2007 a war, whose outcomes are uncertain, was unleashed against them.

Mexico has a 3,000-kilometre border with a power avid for narcotics. The emergence of keen entrepreneurs willing to feed the gluttony was logical; thus were born the cartels whose feats are immortalised in the Mexican narcocorridos. Two decades ago, in 1987, then president Miguel de la Madrid identified drug-dealing as the main threat to national security. They were resounding words empty of content. Four years later, in 1991, I had a conversation with then attorney-general Enrique Álvarez del Castillo, who minimised the problem and boasted about the enormous strength of the Mexican state. This suicidal listlessness has been the norm and set the stage for the growth of criminality, and the foundation of territorial enclaves which the forces of security were forbidden to enter.

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