Tuesday, July 28, 2009

New Strategy Urged in Mexico

Calderón's U.S.-Backed War Against Drug Cartels Losing Political Support

By William Booth and Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderón is under growing pressure to overhaul a U.S.-backed anti-narcotics strategy that many political leaders and analysts said is failing amid spectacular drug cartel assaults against the government.

Full article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072703074_pf.html

This articles gives a good insight into the current situation of the drug war in Mexico: more deaths from drug-related violence daily than Afghanistan....

It misses the point of human rights violations by the military a bit, but we will forgive the reporters as they have, in previous articles, also covered that angle.

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