Monday, October 24, 2011

U.S. Law Enforcement Becoming More Involved In Mexico's Drug Cartel War

U.S. Agencies Infiltrating Drug Cartels Across Mexico -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — American law enforcement agencies have significantly built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to secretly infiltrate some of that country’s most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations, according to security officials on both sides of the border.

As the United States has opened new law enforcement and intelligence outposts across Mexico in recent years, Washington’s networks of informants have grown there as well, current and former officials said. They have helped Mexican authorities capture or kill about two dozen high-ranking and midlevel drug traffickers, and sometimes have given American counternarcotics agents access to the top leaders of the cartels they are trying to dismantle.

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My Comment: I prefer law enforcement over military involvement any-day .... I just hope that it works out for both Mexico and the U.S..

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