Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Discontent with the fight against narco

Last week was filled with news in relation to drug trafficking and drug consumption in Mexico. In brief visit to Mexico, Hillary Clinton said "fan" of President Felipe Calderon for his fight against drug trafficking, thereby contradicting the views filtered by Wikileaks in which from the U.S. government puts into question the ability of the Mexican State to address the problem.

According to the poll this week, six of every 10 Mexicans believe that the latter is what actually does the secretary of state. Later we learned that a study of the U.S. Congress concluded that the Mexican cartels are "having a demoralizing effect on deep discredited and local governments, state and federal levels in Mexico" and "may take years to build stronger institutions before violence is markedly reduced, "and warns that" if we continue with the current attacks and ineffective oversight of leaders, "violence will continue without a short term solution, which could be public pressure to return to the policies "accommodation" that worked in the past.

Amid all this, the Health Secretary Calderón, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, informed us that, although the levels of drug consumption in Mexico are still ridiculous compared to those in other latitudes, it is estimated that addicts illegal substances account for 0.4% of the Mexican population, it turns out that after more than 30,000 dead and who knows what stupidity of tons of drugs seized, today there are twice as cocaine than there were when Calderon began his fight against drug trafficking.

To close with a flourish at the invitation of the coordinator of the parliamentary group of the National Action Party (PAN), Josefina Vazquez Mota, to discuss with the members of this party the actions of the Government of Colombia in the field of internal security and combating organized crime, former President Cesar Gaviria was flying criticizing anti-drug strategy of President Calderón.

We took some of the statements by Gaviria and this week's poll asked respondents whether they considered the former Colombian president was right or wrong. The conclusion is that majority of Mexicans agree with him, namely: 73% say that Mexico has failed to require the United States more commitment and more action to reduce consumption of drugs across the border, and six Gaviria of 10 match in which Mexico is not working enough on money laundering, a similar proportion think it was a mistake drug media exposure as Edgar Valdez Villarreal and José Jorge Balderas (both were arrested, and after that the police put them to testify before the television cameras), and only on the issue of treating addicts as patients not criminals and opinions are divided, with 44% according to the statement by Colombian

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