During a House hearing Wednesday, McCaul complained that just 25 percent of the $1.3 million appropriated by Congress for anti-drug assistance to Mexico has made it south of the border. He asked her why it was “bottlenecked at the State Department.”
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.
Mar 2, 2011
Whack-a-mole: Hillary Clinton blames ‘complexities of negotiating’ for delays in Mexico anti-drug aid
Hillary Clinton blames ‘complexities of negotiating’ for delays in Mexico anti-drug aid | Texas on the Potomac | a mySA.com blog: "Under questioning from Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed delays in drug-war aid to Mexico on “the complexities of negotiating technical requirements with Mexico.”
During a House hearing Wednesday, McCaul complained that just 25 percent of the $1.3 million appropriated by Congress for anti-drug assistance to Mexico has made it south of the border. He asked her why it was “bottlenecked at the State Department.”
Clinton admitted that Mexico “is an area that doesn’t get enough attention and there it is right on our border.”"
During a House hearing Wednesday, McCaul complained that just 25 percent of the $1.3 million appropriated by Congress for anti-drug assistance to Mexico has made it south of the border. He asked her why it was “bottlenecked at the State Department.”
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