Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from the US border town of Columbus. "US government officials say they will now focus on training and equipping Mexican police in the latest joint effort to battle Mexico's drug cartels.
Under the initiative, sheriff's deputies from Texas will be sent to Mexico and Central American countries to train their peers at the national and local level.
But US police themselves have been plagued by allegations of corruption and collaboration with Mexico's drug cartels"
This video describes the situation. Click here.
Note: This link did not work for me on Mozilla Firefox but did work on Google Chrome.and Internet Explorer.
Will the US government ever decide that the Cartels are like a carnivorous monster that just keeps chewing up people and gets bigger and bigger. The tactics we have been and currently are using are just not doing the job. Maybe it will take the Seals to do the job as they did with bin Laden. It certainly is not going to work when we keep sending boys out to do a man's job.
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The problem extends farther than the Mexican cartels. The US war on drugs has artificially inflated the price of recreational drugs. This encourages crime syndicates, along with the corruption and violence associated with them. Even if all the Mexican cartels were dismantled, some other criminal organization would take over the drug trade.
We need to recall the lessons learned from prohibition. Attempts to address addiction through the criminal justice system does far more harm than good. See:
http://fatherbrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/saint-valentines-day-massacre-out-west.html
At last we totally agree on a subject...that makes us both right??
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