A critical take on this week's news, questioning why, on the one side, the Drug Enforcement Agency is laundering millions of dollars of cartel money to try to catch a thief, while on the other, the Boder Patrol fires an officer for expressing doubts about the war on drugs.
Salon.com: "It’s time for an important lesson in proper, civilized behavior. Drug war soldier Gallant launders vast sums of money for the Mexican drug cartels. Drug war soldier Goofus expresses skepticism at the size and scope of this expensive and deadly boondoggle. Goofus gets canned. Gallant is The Drug Enforcement Agency." read more
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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