Posted on December 7, 2008 by mexicoinstitute
El Universal, 12/7/2008
The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), an institution dedicated to raising awareness of the country’s historical memory and removing impunity for past crimes, warned that if Guatemala is incapable of stopping Mexican drug traffickers from entering the country, in two years time, “they will be the owners of Guatemala.”
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Filed under: Security and the Rule of Law | Tagged: CICIG, Drug trafficking, Gangs, Guatemala, Mexico, Mexico - Guatemala Border, Police, Security | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 7, 2008 by mexicoinstitute
Houston Chronicle, 12/7/2008
Guns don’t kill people. Gangsters kill people. But Mexican narcotraffickers buy Texas guns, and thousands of people die as a result.
No turn of phrase can hide the link between gun sales in Texas and the violence just over the border. If we want Mexico’s cartels under control for our own security, we need [...]
Filed under: Security and the Rule of Law | Tagged: Arms Trafficking, Drug trafficking, Guns, Houston, Mexico, Second amendment, Texas, Tony Garza | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 7, 2008 by mexicoinstitute
San Francisco Chronicle, 12/7/2008
On Jan. 20, President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress will have their hands full with two wars and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. It will be easy to overlook a problem that received relatively little attention during the presidential campaign: the need to develop an immigration policy [...]
Filed under: Migration and Migrants | Tagged: Barack Obama, Immigration, Immigration reform, Mexican-Americans, Mexico | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 7, 2008 by mexicoinstitute
Associated Press, 12/7/2008
Janet Napolitano didn’t begin her tenure as Arizona’s governor focused on immigration, but she gradually built a record of trying to confront the state’s vast border woes. As President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to become homeland security chief, Napolitano has won praise from immigrant advocates for her real-world border experience and firm grasp on [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2008 by mexicoinstitute
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/7/2008
President-elect Barack Obama’s new national security team has no end of challenges before it, but here’s one that’s both very close to home and very easy to overlook: the war on drugs.
The war is expensive for us — the federal and state governments spend about $50 billion a year combating drug abuse [...]
Filed under: Security and the Rule of Law | Tagged: Barack Obama, Corruption, Felipe Calderon, Merida Initiative, Mexico, Security, U.S. Mexico Relations, War on drugs | Leave a Comment »
