U.S. anti-drug aid to Mexico reaches $214 million | Reuters The United States has written checks for $214 million of the $1.4 billion promised to Mexico in 2007 to help fight the country’s powerful drug cartels, Washington’s top anti-drug diplomat said on Tuesday. The amount is a fraction of $1.12 billion authorized by the U.S. […]
Mexico Decriminalizes Drugs; Law May Be Example for U.S. – TIME Groups pushing to legalize marijuana north of the Rio Grande see Mexico’s change as an encouraging sign for their own struggle. Allen St. Pierre, head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says the Mexican law is part of changing global […]
DHS still has the lead for the US Government in the cyber arena. That responsibility is a hold over from the Bush Administration. Many experts feel that since DHS could not gain sufficient traction in this area, they should have the duty removed, and given to someone else in the government.
There were many things that surprised me during a State Department-sponsored trip to Mexico this week, where we took a tour of U.S. border security operations before heading into Ciudad Juarez and Mexico City to meet with groups organizing against the spiraling violence in that country. I was surprised, for instance, that a representative from one of the Juarez drug cartels did not meet me at the airport, a block-typed sign with my name on it in one hand and a diamond-handled .45 in the other. I was surprised by the Border Patrol video with shrieking death metal background music. I was surprised by the mixture of courage and nonchalance of the college students living in Juarez who have grown sick of the murders and extortions and kidnappings in their city and who want desperately for the world to know that these cartels do not define them. I was surprised that traffic lights in Mexico City are optional …
The State Department’s Tech.Del: Can People Power Crush Mexico’s Drug Cartels? | techPresident The United States has tried a variety of tactics in its effort to confront the drug-fueled violence and instability that plagues the U.S.-Mexico border. Diplomacy with political leaders. The equipping of local law enforcement with helicopters and other aircraft. Direct cash transfers […]
The Associated Press: Tighter oversight on border laptop searches The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers’ personal information. The long-criticized practice of searching travelers’ electronic devices will continue, but a supervisor now would need to approve […]
Mexico Eases Ban on Drug Possession – WSJ.com Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday, in a move that creates one of the world’s most permissive narcotics markets and that opponents say could complicate President Felipe Calderón’s war against illegal drug cartels. The law goes beyond what is allowed in many […]
Homeland Security Today – preparedness and security news – Mexican Cartel Violence Will Continue, Officials Believe US counterterrorism officials continue to be increasingly concerned about the growth of Mexico’s narco-cartels and the Mexican military’s inability to substantially break up their operations. Officials who spoke on background said the cartels and their “enforcers” have become emboldened […]
In what has been a lightly reported story this past week – but one for which it is impossible to overstate the importance of – President Felipe Calderon terminated 1000 customs officials (700 in some reports) from their positions as inspectors at ports of entry throughout the country. This is another indication of the dedicated and serious manner in which President Calderon has continued to wage war with the drug cartels that exploit the border for their own illegitimate purposes.
Security Weekly: Confidential Informants: A Double-Edged Sword Police in El Paso, Texas, announced Aug. 11 that they had arrested three suspects in the May 15 shooting death of Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, a Juarez cartel lieutenant who had been acting as a confidential informant (CI) for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. It […]
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