Mexico fights organized crime and drugs mafia

12:20 22/03/2010 » In the world

Mexico fights organized crime and drugs mafia

President Felipe Calderon called on the United States to help fight organized crime jointly with Mexico, with each country focusing on efforts on its own territory, during a visit to the crime-ridden border city of Juarez.
Mexico City and Washington should approach the war on drugs “as a battle that we have to fight on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border and win as allies, each on his own territory, each within his abilities, but with close cooperation on information, intelligence and public policy,” the Mexican president said in an address Tuesday.

Drugs are “a binational problem, which has a fundamental origin, basically, which is drug consumption in the United States and the criminal activity associated with that trafficking, and as a result it is the responsibility of both countries,” the president said. 

Source: Panorama.am

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