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This week there were multiple reports in the press about the spreading influence of Mexico's drug cartels:
- Guy Lawson writes in Rolling Stone about the new ways Mexican drug cartels are operating inside the United States.
- Reporting from South Carolina, the Los Angeles Times documents Mexican cartels' inroads in the United States.
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Adam gives an update on the Colombian FTA debate, the extradition of a Venezuelan narcotrafficker from Colombia to Venezuela, another mass grave in Mexico, Uruguay's amnesty law, and Peru's elections.
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In late March Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee for Oversight, Investigations and Management, penned a Houston Chronicle column with a new proposal for the U.S. role in Mexico’s fight against violent organized-crime groups. McCaul called for Mexico’s drug “cartels” to be added to the U.S. State Department’s...
At a conference in Mexico sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Adam talks with Professor Bruce Bagley, chairman of the Department of International Studies at the University of Miami and a longtime expert on U.S. counter-drug policy in the Americas.
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The Center for International Policy's Latin America Security program is pleased to share its new report "Stabilization and Development: Lessons of Colombia's 'Consolidation' Model." This new International Policy Report summarizes the discussion that took place at the December 2010 conference co-hosted by the Center for International Policy...