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As Mexico fights a "hot" drug war, US not holding up its end in fight against multinational cartels

By Gritsforbreakfast

I've been trying to keep an eye on what's happening with drug enforcement along the Texas-Mexico border over the past couple of years, and can't recall such an eventful week, with the Mexican Army fighting a hot war with cartel forces south of the river, a leader from Los Zetas on trial in McAllen, and a law enforcement summit in El Paso to combat gun purchases by cartels in the US.It's an axiom in the smuggling trade that drugs flow north, while money and guns flow south. While much Sysiphian effort is made at stopping the drugs and capturing the money, here in the US nobody really prioritizes stopping the illegal smuggling of thousands of guns across the Mexican border every week.According to the Dallas News this morning ("US, Mexico set sights on stopping flow of weapons to cartels," Jan...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).