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Mexico and U.S. Plot New Antidrug Strategy
Written by Wall Street Journal / David Luhnow Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:00
Merida Initiative Offers $1.3 Billion for Equipment, Training, 'Smart' Border Enforcement and Institutional Reform
MEXICO CITY -- U.S. and Mexican officials are expected to finalize a new strategy on Tuesday on how to use some $1.3 billion in U.S. aid under the so-called Merida Initiative to try to control growing drug-related violence in Mexico.
Officials hope the plan, which mixes military aid such as Black Hawk helicopters with "softer" money such as investments in local communities, can have the same success in turning around Mexico's troubles as Plan Colombia, another U.S. antidrug aid package, did for that country.
Officials caution that solving Mexico's problems could be a tougher battle than helping Colombia, where U.S. aid helped the government beat back insurgencies tied to the drugs trade.
"Mexico is nowhere near as bad as Colombia was at the height of its problems. But to get Mexico to where Colombia is now will require a concerted and sustained effort," said one U.S. official.
To stress the U.S. commitment to Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit the country Tuesday with an unusually large delegation that includes Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Colombian navy seizes 1.5 tons of cocaine
Written by EFE Monday, 22 March 2010 00:00
The Colombian navy on Monday seized more than 1.5 tons of cocaine and 2 tons of marijuana in three separate operations in the Caribbean coastal city of Cartagena, authorities said.
The first seizure occurred at a military roadblock set up in the El Bosque neighborhood, where a man was arrested when he was found driving a taxi and transporting four large suitcases filled with 95 kilos of marijuana.
In another search operation in a house in the Henequen neighborhood, authorities found 25 sacks of marijuana and captured one person.
The last of the seizures occurred near the Colombian president's alternative official residence in Cartagena, where marines found a van loaded with cocaine and other materials ready for transport abroad, the navy said.
Bolivia seizes 2.5 tons of Peruvian cocaine
Written by EFE Friday, 19 March 2010 00:00
Bolivian police carried out an operation Friday in which it arrested one person and seized 2.5 tons of cocaine shipped from neighboring Peru, authorities said.
Col. Jorge Romero, regional chief of the elite FELCN drug squad in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, told Efe that the cocaine was confiscated in the working class neighborhood of Plan 3000.
"The quantity of drugs seized is incredible and is far beyond what many other operations have achieved in the last two or three years," he said.
Besides the Peruvian placed under arrest, suspected of "belonging to the gang of drug traffickers," the police raided seven houses where two Bolivians were arrested and are being interrogated for their presumed involvement with the shipment, Romero said.
"One hundred percent of the drug comes from Peru. Now we see our country being used as a transit zone for drugs. We don't know if it was going to be exported to another nation or it was going to a laboratory for crystalization," Romero said.
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"58% of Colombia's illicit crops are located in FARC-influenced areas: 58,879 hectares of coca capable of producing 252 tons of cocaine per year, valued at more than 7.5 billion USD."
Cambio Magazine. September, 2009
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