Plan Mexico and the Billion-Dollar Drug Deal
06/04/2008
- Opinión
The latest statistics purported to show that the street price of cocaine has doubled in some cities and that purity has decreased, indicating restricted supply. According to Walters, the
Walters presented a preview of the highly secretive document that will set out terms for the multi-year package. According to press reports, the plan includes objectives in the areas of gathering and sharing intelligence, interdiction at ports of entry, aerial monitoring and intervention, investigation and legal processing, measures against money laundering, and cooperation with
If that sounds vague it\'s because it is. Almost no details have been released about the deal. So far, the public has only been told that the money will be for intelligence equipment, wiretapping, and military and police training programs.
Buzzwords—like fumigation, arms, and foreign agents—have been left out of public statements, although they will most likely not be left out of the package itself.
Fumigations have been a social and environmental disaster and proved ineffective in
Both Mexican and
While it is unlikely that
But the real threat to
It\'s no coincidence that the new plan concentrates on measures in
But it\'s better business to attempt to remove the speck from your neighbor\'s eye than the log from your own. Although Mexico\'s drug problem is far more than a speck (the General Accounting Office recently reported that it accounts for as much as a $23 billion-dollar a year business), the new deal will offer up lucrative contracts to U.S. military and intelligence equipment firms, long-term maintenance and training contracts, and related services. In a recent Washington Post article, Misha Glenny cites a GAO report on Plan
The billion-dollar drug deal may be a bonanza for Boeing, but the pay-off to the
Despite Walters\' claims, a tremendous amount of evidence exists to show the consistent failure of the supply-side model of drug war that relies primarily on military and police enforcement measures. When that model goes international, it becomes even more problematic, feeding conflict as it starves social investment.
This policy approach would seem to warrant at the very least a cautious attitude toward applying it in other countries—especially one as geographically and economically close as
- Laura Carlsen is director of the
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