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Presidential Meeting Puts US-Mexico Relations Back on Track–In the Wrong Direction

Posted by in Mexico, World News & Events on 4th March, 2011 | No Comments

obama_calderonThe presidential meeting this week between Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. But while most analysts emphasized the tensions between the neighboring nations going into the meeting, the real crisis behind the visit was the failure of what the two leaders most strongly agree on: the war on drugs south of the border.
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Petition to Suspend Reckless US Support for Mexico’s Military

Posted by in Featured, Mexico, World News & Events on 28th October, 2010 | No Comments

anteca2Despite nearly 30,000 drug-related homicides, a huge increase in human rights violations by the armed forces and growing citizen opposition to the bloody “war on drugs,” the U.S. Congress is once again considering the allocation of U.S. public funds to Mexico to support the failed counter-narcotics policy. Please consider adding your name to a petition calling on the Obama Administration and the US Congress to suspend United States support for Mexico’s military.
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