Anti-Crime Cooperation Between U.S. and Mexico

Extracted 26AUG2011 from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/world/americas/26drugs.html?_r=1&partne...

The Drug Enforcement Administration provides logistical support on the American side of the border, officials said, arranging staging areas and sharing intelligence that helps guide Mexico’s decisions about targets and tactics...

Although the operations remain rare, they are part of a broadening American campaign aimed at blunting the power of Mexican cartels that have built criminal networks spanning the world and have started a wave of violence in Mexico that has left more than 35,000 people dead... efforts that would have been unthinkable five years ago.

Still, the cooperation remains a source of political tensions, especially in Mexico where the political classes have been leery of the United States dating from the Mexican-American War of 1846. Recent disclosures about the expanding United States’ role in the country’s main national security efforts have set off a storm of angry assertions that Mr. Calderón has put his own political interests ahead of Mexican sovereignty. Mr. Calderón’s political party faces an election next year that is viewed in part as a referendum on his decision to roll out this campaign against drug traffickers...

See also:

http://logistics-transportation.posterous.com/?sort=&search=narcotics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/afghanistan-poppy-killers-get-...