Whack-a-mole: WikiLeaks sheds light on U.S.-Mexican relations

Another look at the most recent Wikileaks on U.S.-Mexico relations that puts the leaks in the larger context of U.S. assessments of the drug war.

WikiLeaks sheds light on U.S.-Mexican relations - timesherald.com: "A series of 2009 diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks discloses discussions between the United States and Mexico concerning the militarization of the war on the drug cartels there.

The dispatches, dating from late 2009, show that “a state of exception” — roughly a state of emergency that would bend civilian rights in light of military operations --for certain areas came up in discussions between the U.S. government and Mexican Secretary of Defense Gen. Guillermo Galvan Galvan.

One cable attributes to Mexico’s defense secretary the suggestion of invoking “Article 29” of Mexico’s Constitution to give more solid ground for military intervention in the cartel fight." Dec. 25, 2010. The Times-Herald is a newspaper in suburban Philadelphia, PA. The author is Jose de la Isla, from Houston, TX, who writes a weekly commentary for Hispanic Link News Service.