Reader Notes

Re: Mexico Finds Drug Abuse Is Now Its Problem, Too

10/31/01

Recently I saw an AP article that indicated the Mexicans are blaming U.S. border enforcement for their blossoming drug problem. The Mexican government is utterly shameless. Clueless, too. Here is part of that artile:

Official blames a fortified U.S. border for rise in Mexican cocaine use

The Associated Press
10/17/01 9:54 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Increased security along the U.S. border after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington has made it harder for smugglers to move drugs onto American soil and increased cocaine use in Mexico, a police official said Wednesday.

Crime Prevention Director Pedro Jose Penaloza told a news conference that cocaine smugglers, afraid to cross a fortified U.S. border, have begun selling drugs at rock-bottom prices in the central states of San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Queretaro and Guanajuato.

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