More than 34,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006 and launched a sustained effort to eliminate violent drug-trafficking cartels. More than 65,000 guns recovered in Mexico have been traced back to the United States.
Mexico has been asking the United States to help by reducing the demand for the drugs and by stopping the flow of easily purchased automatic weapons into Mexico.
When the Obama administration tried to crack down on the gun runners the NRA pressured the Congressmen that they own, lock stock and barrel, to kill the effort.
When Reagan was president the CIA cooperated with the drug cartels and even smuggled drugs to pay for the Contras in their illegal war against Nicaragua.
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/cia_dr...Once again part of the government is in bed with the drug runners. Last time it was the Republican President and the effort was opposed by the Democratic Congress. Now it is the Republican House that is aiding the drug cartels and the Democratic President who is fighting the cartels.
The Obama administration has been very successful in intercepting drugs coming across the border which may have contributed to the increase in violence across the border.
http://alcoholism.about.com/b/2009/03/17... Now the administration wants to shift more funding to prevention programs to cut the demand, while also trying to stop the flow of guns flowing to the drug cartels, but he not only has to fight the drug cartels he also has to fight Congress and the NRA.
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