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"Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs" - 6/12/2007 2:53:29 PM

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"Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs"

Sun Jun 10, 8:32 PM ET

" MEXICO CITY - Mexican and American officials are talking about how the U.S. government can do more to help Mexico battle drug trafficking, but the Mexicans aren't asking for a billion-dollar aid program involving U.S. soldiers.

Mexico's ambassador to Washington, Arturo Sarukhan, told the newspaper Milenio in comments published Sunday that the U.S. aid might include "training courses, the transfer of resources and the exchange of intelligence information."

But Mexico doesn't want another Plan Colombia, a mostly military anti-cocaine plan that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $5 billion since 2000.

"There could not be any Plan Colombia for Mexico, because the two countries' realities are very different," Sarukhan said.

Mexico — which lost half its territory to the United States in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War — has always been loath to even consider the presence of U.S. troops on its soil.

"At no time has there been any request to the United States similar to the one made at one time by Colombia," Sarukhan told the newspaper Reforma.

Since taking office on Dec. 1, President Felipe Calderon has sent more than 24,000 soldiers and federal police to battle heavily armed drug gangs. The traffickers have been blamed for more than 1,000 deaths this year, often decapitating their victims and leaving the heads with threatening messages in public places.

Mexico wants the U.S. to do its part by reducing drug consumption, fighting money laundering and stopping the southward flow of high-powered weapons and chemicals used to make illegal drugs.

Calderon's administration has "energetically demanded that the U.S. government assume its responsibility," the Foreign Relations Department said late Saturday. "Mexico has experienced growth in drug trafficking and the violence associated with it, in large measure, because of increasing consumption in the United States."

In a rare acknowledgment of the gravity of the problem, Mexico's top domestic security official, Interior Secretary Francisco Ramirez, said Sunday that the government had lost control of the situation before the current offensive was launched.

"None of us had control," Ramirez told reporters. "Everything was lost, and today we are recovering it ... We are engaging in controlling territory, now we are starting to recover territory for the citizenry." "

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RE: "Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs" - 6/12/2007 3:52:37 PM

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This is just another example of why we need to completely change our drug policy in this country. When you outlaw something that people want, outlaws are the ones that will provide it to them. I don't use drugs and I discourage anyone from using them. But what I or anyone else says does not matter. People are going to use mind-altering substances whether we like it or not. I would rather it be legal and safe then to hear the horrendous stories about the violence happening along the Mexican border. I wouldn't make a trip to certain Mexican towns if you paid me to do it, and that is sad. Mexico is a beautiful country with a wonderful culture. What is happening there and in other Latin American countries is a shame. The governments of the United States and those countries share most of the blame.

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RE: "Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs" - 6/12/2007 4:25:18 PM

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Shit, I'm still waiting for the "War on Drugs" to start!
You don't give aid to the enemy!
I bet if we bombed a few Colombian and Mexican cities that would get their attention.
That's all those people understand is violence and brutality anyway.
We should give them a good dose of it.
That Mexican border is still wide open. We need to close it and get out of Nafta.
Declare Martial Law along that entire border and if someone tries to sneak over it, shoot them on site.
We really have not had any type of a war on drugs.

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RE: "Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs" - 6/12/2007 4:37:27 PM

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......I bet if we bombed a few Colombian and Mexican cities that would get their attention.
That's all those people understand is violence and brutality anyway........

....apparently they're not the only ones to only understand violence and brutality. Subtlety and finesse may be derived from French words but it would be stupid to dismiss them as tactics because of it......

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RE: "Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs" - 6/12/2007 4:49:48 PM

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The border situation is definitely one that needs Top Attention as politicians seek re-election.. drugs traffickers aren't the only problems.. virually anybody can cross into the US from Mexico with a little english and some confidence. Sad.. but true.

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RE: "Mexico asks U.S. for more help vs. drugs" - 6/12/2007 5:54:24 PM

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Are the Mexicans implying that Americans dont do enough drugs?

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p.s. I gave up drugs at 17, I feel really put upon that the Mexicans want me to do more bong loads.

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