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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, in an indictment of his own
*   department, Attorney General Lozano fired 737 members of his federal
*   police force -- 17 percent of his entire corps -- saying they did not
*   have "the ethical profile" required for the job. In a recent meeting
*   with foreign reporters, Lozano said it could take 15 years to clean up
*   the force.
*
*   In November 1993, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive
*   No. 14, shifting U.S. anti-drug efforts away from intercepting cocaine as
*   it passed through Mexico and the Caribbean, and, instead, attacking the
*   drug supply at its sources in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru.
 
The President himself ordered them to stop checking!!! This is in the same
leadership vein as Reagan declaring himself a "Contra".
 
And why did President Clinton change strategy?
 
He didn't have much choice. The Mexicans didn't want to work with us anymore.
 
We greatly pissed them off. U.S. law enforcement literally knows no limits.
 
*   The United States subsequently arranged