Author: Sidney WeintraubPublisher: CSIS
ISBN: 0892066075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"A report of the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy"--T.p.
Cooperative Mexican-U.S. Antinarcotics Efforts
Author: Sidney WeintraubPublisher: CSIS
ISBN: 0892066075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"A report of the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy"--T.p.
Mexico's Drug-Related Violence
Author: June S. BeittelPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437927912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Drug-related violence in Mexico spiked in recent years as drug trafficking org. (DTOs) competed for control of smuggling routes into the U.S. For at least 40 years Mexico has been among the most important producer and supplier of heroin, marijuana and (later) meth. to the U.S. market. Now, it is the leading source of all three drugs and is the leading transit country for cocaine coming from S. Amer. to the U.S. Contents of this 5/09 report: (1) Drug Trafficking in Mexico: Background on Mexico¿s Anti-drug Efforts; Major DTOs in Mexico; Other Groups and Emergent Cartels; Pervasive Corruption and the Drug Trade; (2) Escalation of Violence in 2008 and 2009: Causes; Location; (3) U.S. Policy Response; The Mérida Initiative. Charts and tables.
United States-Mexican Cooperation in Narcotics Control Efforts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Oversight of United States/Mexico Drug Cooperation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
U.s.-mexican Security Cooperation
Author: Clare SeelkePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542749268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Ten years after the Mexican government launched an aggressive, military-led campaign against drug trafficking and organized crime, violent crime continues to threaten citizen security and governance in parts of Mexico, including in cities along the U.S. Southwest border. Organized crime-related violence in Mexico declined from 2011 to 2014 but rose in 2015 and again in 2016. Analysts estimate that the violence may have claimed more than 100,000 lives since December 2006. Social protests in Mexico against education reform and gas price increases have also resulted in deadly violence. High-profile cases, including the enforced disappearance and murder of 43 students in Mexico, have drawn attention to the problem of human rights abuses involving security forces. Cases of corruption by former governors, some of whom have fled Mexico, also have increased concerns about impunity. Supporting Mexico's efforts to reform its criminal justice system is widely regarded as crucial for combating criminality and better protecting citizen security in the country. U.S. support for those efforts has increased significantly as a result of the development and implementation of the M�rida Initiative, a bilateral partnership launched in 2007 for which Congress appropriated more than $2.6 billion from FY2008 to FY2016. U.S. assistance to Mexico focuses on: (1) disrupting organized criminal groups, (2) institutionalizing the rule of law, (3) creating a 21st-century border, and (4) building strong and resilient communities. Newer areas of focus have involved bolstering security along Mexico's southern border and addressing the production and trafficking of heroin. As of November 2016, $1.6 billion of M�rida assistance had been delivered to Mexico. Inaugurated to a six-year term in December 2012, Mexican President Enrique Pe�a Nieto has continued U.S.-Mexican security cooperation. U.S. intelligence has helped Mexico arrest top crime leaders, including Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman in February 2014. Guzm�n's July 2015 prison escape was a major setback for bilateral efforts, but he was recaptured in 2016 and is scheduled to be extradited. The Pe�a Nieto government met a 2008 constitutional mandate to transition to an accusatorial justice system by June 2016 but has struggled to comply with international recommendations on preventing torture, enforced disappearances, and other human rights abuses. Mexico's adoption of a national anticorruption system and its transition from a presidentially appointed attorney general's office to a more independent prosecutor general's office selected by the Mexican Senate have become the focus of efforts to combat corruption. The U.S. Congress has continued to fund and oversee security assistance to Mexico. Congress provided $139 million in FY2016 for the M�rida Initiative in P.L. 114-113, some $20 million above the budget request. President Obama's FY2017 budget request included $129 million for the M�rida Initiative. The House Appropriations Committee version of the FY2017 foreign operations measure, H.R. 5912, would have provided $149 million for the M�rida Initiative. The Senate Appropriations Committee version, S. 3117, would have fully funded the Administration's request for Mexico. The 114th Congress did not complete action on FY2017 appropriations, but in December 2016 it approved a continuing resolution (P.L. 114-254) providing foreign aid funding to Mexico through April 28, 2017, at the FY2016 level, minus an across-the-board reduction of almost 0.2%. As a result, the 115th Congress is to consider both FY2017 and FY2018 appropriations for Mexico and the M�rida Initiative.
MEXICO'S NARCO-INSURGENCY AND U.S. COUNTERDRUG POLICY.
Author: Hal BrandsMexico's Cold War
Author: Renata KellerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.
Mexico's "war" on Drugs
Author: María Celia ToroPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555875480
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This text explains the punitive trend in Mexican anti-drug policies as a political imperative, an out-growth of the perceived need both to counter the growth of the illegal drug market and to prevent US police and judicial authorities from acting as a surrogate justice system in Mexico.
Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Conference
Author: Thirty-eighth Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Conference, Savannah, Georgia, June 25-27, 1999
Author: United States. Delegation to the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description