The Christian Science Monitor continues the debate on the drug war "Whack-a-mole" strategy. Good!
San Diego-Tijuana drug tunnel bust, Prop. 19, and Latin America's drug war debate - CSMonitor.com: "Although Mexican authorities trumpeted the seizure, the Monitor questioned whether such high-profile successes would make a dent in the overall flow of drugs from Mexico to the US.
“Weapons, cash, and drug seizures, as well as top arrests of drug traffickers, are always touted by the government as signs of success,” wrote the Monitor’s Latin America Bureau Chief, Sara Miller Llana. “While they are no doubt good news – and definitely give the government, normally battered by the ongoing violence in Mexico, a PR boost – they do little to impact the overall structure of criminal organizations, experts say.'" Nov. 4, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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