Without concrete measures to rely on them, Barack Obama and Felipe Calderón on Thursday took the commitment to end the savage butchery together that drug cartels are making in Mexico and threaten to extend the United States. "We have to convert the common border in a land of opportunity, not violence," the Mexican president, who leaves Washington without tangible results to believe in the viability of that dream.
The agreements were limited to the announcement of a solution to the long conflict for trafficking Mexican trucks across the border. There is a minor problem between two countries with large trade. It is a matter that had provoked strong criticism from American unions and had slowed down the negotiations of other matters of greater importance.
Beyond that, the rest were expressions of good will. "Calderon has shown extraordinary courage in the fight against drug trafficking and has a full partner in America," Obama said. "We will redouble our efforts to achieve the security that our people deserve," said Calderon. It is the mere recognition of an alarming reality.
The risk of global instability is not limited to the Arab world. In the southern U.S. border has worsened a conflict with serious implications for this country. The main difference is that this is much more bloody: it has killed 35,000 people since Calderon took office in 2006, nearly 15,000 last year.
But they also have a point of agreement: the United States shared responsibility. Obama said yesterday that his country accepted the blame. That responsibility is now more visible than ever. This visit occurred three weeks after that for the first time since the beginning of the war against drug traffickers, a U.S.
federal agent, Jaime Zapata, was murdered in Mexico by drug cartels, which unleashed a wave of indignation, mixed with large doses of anti-Mexican demagoguery in border towns. The researchers demonstrated after Zapata had been a victim of the firing of a gun purchased earlier in Texas. Mexican authorities have seized over the past four years more than 60,000 weapons bought in the U.S..
It is obvious that the posters are fed by the permissiveness of U.S. law regarding firearms, giving them virtually unlimited access to the most sophisticated assault rifles. The other source of growth of the Mexican mafia organizations is the greed of the drug in the United States. According to official estimates by the U.S.
government, the posters get each year about 30,000 million dollars from the sale of their products in this country. Obama said he is fighting this issue with "education, prevention and treatment." None of these circumstances can deny the responsibility of the Mexican Government to enforce law and protect its citizens within its territory.
But make it clear that it will not be achieved without concerted action between two countries that share so complicated border. Not be easy. Although other earlier pledges of cooperation, little progress has been achieved. Since the so-called Merida Initiative, the most complete joint project was approved four years ago, the U.S.
has spent over 1,400 million dollars in projects of cooperation with Mexico but the results are expected. Historical suspicion and pettiness of local policies help to make bilateral cooperation more difficult. Mexico remains one of the most anti-American in the world. A recent BBC poll placed him with a 50% rejection to the United States, among the most hostile, rather than China and Arab countries and only behind Pakistan and Turkey. 
The agreements were limited to the announcement of a solution to the long conflict for trafficking Mexican trucks across the border. There is a minor problem between two countries with large trade. It is a matter that had provoked strong criticism from American unions and had slowed down the negotiations of other matters of greater importance.
Beyond that, the rest were expressions of good will. "Calderon has shown extraordinary courage in the fight against drug trafficking and has a full partner in America," Obama said. "We will redouble our efforts to achieve the security that our people deserve," said Calderon. It is the mere recognition of an alarming reality.
The risk of global instability is not limited to the Arab world. In the southern U.S. border has worsened a conflict with serious implications for this country. The main difference is that this is much more bloody: it has killed 35,000 people since Calderon took office in 2006, nearly 15,000 last year.
But they also have a point of agreement: the United States shared responsibility. Obama said yesterday that his country accepted the blame. That responsibility is now more visible than ever. This visit occurred three weeks after that for the first time since the beginning of the war against drug traffickers, a U.S.
federal agent, Jaime Zapata, was murdered in Mexico by drug cartels, which unleashed a wave of indignation, mixed with large doses of anti-Mexican demagoguery in border towns. The researchers demonstrated after Zapata had been a victim of the firing of a gun purchased earlier in Texas. Mexican authorities have seized over the past four years more than 60,000 weapons bought in the U.S..
It is obvious that the posters are fed by the permissiveness of U.S. law regarding firearms, giving them virtually unlimited access to the most sophisticated assault rifles. The other source of growth of the Mexican mafia organizations is the greed of the drug in the United States. According to official estimates by the U.S.
government, the posters get each year about 30,000 million dollars from the sale of their products in this country. Obama said he is fighting this issue with "education, prevention and treatment." None of these circumstances can deny the responsibility of the Mexican Government to enforce law and protect its citizens within its territory.
But make it clear that it will not be achieved without concerted action between two countries that share so complicated border. Not be easy. Although other earlier pledges of cooperation, little progress has been achieved. Since the so-called Merida Initiative, the most complete joint project was approved four years ago, the U.S.
has spent over 1,400 million dollars in projects of cooperation with Mexico but the results are expected. Historical suspicion and pettiness of local policies help to make bilateral cooperation more difficult. Mexico remains one of the most anti-American in the world. A recent BBC poll placed him with a 50% rejection to the United States, among the most hostile, rather than China and Arab countries and only behind Pakistan and Turkey.
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