WASHINGTON - Spiraling drug violence in Mexico, narcotics trafficking elsewhere in Latin America and a thriving opium trade in Afghanistan pose significant national security threats to the United States, the Obama administration said Friday. In its annual survey of global counter-narcotics efforts, the State Department painted a grim picture of the situation in Mexico, where government attempts to fight traffickers are hindered by rampant corruption. The battle between authorities and drug cartels killed more than 6,000 people last year and more than 1,000 so far in 2009.
The article entitled "New Leader Vows to Oust Anti-drug Squad" (World, Thursday), contains factually incorrect information that the Ecuadorian Embassy would like to correct. Contrary to the statement included in the article, Ecuador is the only Andean country that does not produce drugs. As such, Ecuador has been a crucial, willing and committed partner of the United States in the fight against drug trafficking in Latin America. Ecuador is home to the only U.S. anti-drugs military facility in the region.
IN LATIN AMERICA, THOUGH WITH DIFFERENT levels of acceptance in each country, Washington has successfully implanted the omnipresent idea of "new threats" and the proliferation of all kinds of dangers, including global terrorism, transnational organized crime, and international drug trafficking, all of which operate in "empty spaces" where the state has vanished or is markedly disappearing. It reaffirms, among other things, the validity of the principle of territorial sovereignty; rejects the Colombian incursion into Ecuadoran territory without Quito's "knowledge or consent"; registers the apologies offered by Colombia and its decision not to repeat such an action "under any circumstance"; reiterates the region's commitment to confronting the threats from "irregular groups and criminal ...
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As the debate over immigration continues, stringent U.S. laws will surely play an important role in the growing reliance of Mexicans on illegal trafficking groups. Recent laws like Arizona's SB 1070, which critics argue encompass racial profiling, are causing increasing harm to many victims of human trafficking. Amanda Kloer of change.org explains that the law will "up the chances that undocumented trafficking victims will end up detained or deported and documented traffickers walk free." Kloer reasons that victimizing those who have been subjected to trafficking, via laws like SB 1070, is likely to keep many from coming forward to law enforcement officials out of fear that they will simply be deported back to Mexico. Any change in the classification of "illegal immigrants" has to take ...
The "War on Drugs" as viewed in Mexico and the U. S. is changing. No... by the end of 2010, are trafficked out of Latin America annually for the purpose of prostitution. ...
... the casualty figures occurring in America's two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) under the single... the annual counts of terrorism in Latin America. From 1970 to 2003, Patterns reported that...7). The removal of drug-related violence geographically relocated the terr... linkages between terrorism and drug trafficking in Latin America (Martin & Romano, 1992; Schweitze...
People were shocked when federal prosecutors charged the owners of a motel in Oacoma, S.D., a town of fewer than 500, with keeping Philippine women in virtual slavery, forcing them to work 20-hour days under the threat of violence and taking back their paychecks after they had been endorsed to deposit in their own accounts. Prosecutors said the enslaved women performed cleaning and front- desk duties at the motel and were expected to work second jobs at fast-food restaurants. Every aspect of their lives, according to records in the 2007 case, was controlled, including what they ate, where they lived, what they wore and to whom they spoke.
...," the superhighway used to deliver trafficking victims to cities across the country. In November,... Division, compared human trafficking to drug and gun smuggling in that it frequently involves c... Hillary Rodham Clinton has said some Americans are trapped by abusive employers and others are he..."In Latin America, Mexican drug cartels are increasingly inv...
... (SMS) including its efforts to fight drug trafficking, rehabilitate drug users, combat firea...In many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, effective treatment of ...
... Aguinis is the epitome of the contemporary Latin American intellectual. He is in tune with the worl... is the connection between these militias and drug trafficking in Latin America.". Aguinis' next nove...
... challenges from organized crime and from drug-trafficking organization? And what of the areas i...
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