Mexico’s Drug Cartel Crisis
Posted February 13th, 2009 at 11.55am in Protect America.
The Mexican government’s war with international drug cartels has been spilling over into the United States at an alarming rate. Just yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported that Phoenix has become a “kidnap-for-ransom capital.” Today at noon, The Heritage Foundation will host a panel titled: The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Cartel Crisis and What the U.S. Should Do About It. Speakers include:
General Barry R. McCaffrey (ret.)
President,
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC
Stephen Johnson
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere,
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Dr. Andrew Selee
Director,
Mexico Institute,
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Watch the event LIVE here.
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February 13, 2009 Ozzy6900, CT writes:
There is nothing the US can do about this. The Hill is not concerned with Our safety, they are concerned with PORK, PORK and more PORK! maybe Presiden Obama can go to the Mexican cartel and have a nice chat like he want to do with Iran! I’m sure that they will listen to the ‘messiah”!