State Department drug report: one more thing about Mexico Share This /

Following on the previous post about the State Department's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, released today: A big hat-tip is due Bloggings By Boz for noticing a significant drop in the number of tons of cocaine interdicted by Mexican authorities in 2010. The 9.4 tons seized in 2010 compares unfavorably with previous years' data, which last year's narcotics report provides, but this year's does not. The report claims that 95 percent of U.S.-bound cocaine passes through Mexico. Why would seizures decline amid sharply increased U.S. assistance, when they are not declining elsewhere in the source and transit zones?