Napolitano: Mexican drug war 'not a failure'
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Monday that the war on drugs in Mexico "is not a failure."
At a press conference in Mexico City after meeting Mexican Interior Minister Alejandro Poire, Napolitano called the drug policies of both Mexico and the United States "a continuing effort to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs."
Napolitano also said that among the things discussed at the meeting with Poire was how to have a more regional approach to a number of security issues threatening the United States, Mexico and Central America.
Asked why, in spite of efforts by both Mexico and the United States, the leader Mexico's most powerful criminal organization -- the Sinaloa drug cartel -- remains at large, Napolitano implied it's only a matter of time before Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman falls.
full: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/27/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-napolitano/index.html
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Right?
LetTimmySmoke
(1,202 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)The drug war is an even bigger failure though.
K&R in the hopes that we choose wiser leaders, for both our party and our nation, in the future.
-app
davepc
(3,936 posts)A rousing success!
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)It's all a matter of perspective.
There's PLENTY of winning happening every day!
Skye G.
(1 post)We have been "warring" against drugs since Nixon. If Guzman falls another will take his place. My eye's were opened to what goes on in Mexico when I read The Plaza by Guillermo Paxton. I don't buy that we are winning anything. Yup, someone is making a ton of $$$ on this at the cost of a lot of human lives.
crimsonblue
(5,337 posts)Just make pot legal, already. Who really wants to do coke, meth, or heroin when you are stoned out of goard watching Beerfest for the eleventy-billionth time, single-handedly keeping your local Jimmy Johns franchise in business with your 2:30am orders? Oh college, how I miss thee.