🚀 go-pugleaf

let trucks full of cocaine and
heroin just roll right into the United States.

*   "Diminished U.S. Role Below Border Plays Into Traffickers' Hands"
*
*   By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson
*   Washington Post Foreign Service
*   Sunday, September 8 1996; Page A01
*   The Washington Post
*
*   Due to their new 'Mexicanization policy':
*   Mexico became the main gateway into the United States for illegal
*   narcotics, with the amount of cocaine making the journey climbing to
*   an estimated 210 tons last year.
*
*   Mexico's drug arrests plunged nearly 65 percent, from 27,369 the year
*   before the policy changes to 9,728 last year, according to data that
*   the Mexican government supplied to the State Department.
*
*   Cocaine seizures in Mexico were cut in half, dropping from more than
*   50 tons in 1993 to slightly more than 24 tons in each of the last two
*   years -- the smallest amounts since 1988, Mexican government figures
*   show.
*
*   The GAO report charges that Mexico's greatest problem is, in
*   fact, the "widespread, endemic corruption" throughout its law
*   enforcement agencies. Earlier this month