Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Paul Rexton Kan
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597978051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Now in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people, and gangs combat gangs. The war has killed more than 60,000 people since President Felipe Calderón began cracking down on the cartels in December 2006. The targets of the violence have been wide ranging--from police officers to journalists, from clinics to discos. Governments on either side of the U.S.- Mexican border have been unable to control the violence. The war has spilled over into American cities and affects domestic policy issues ranging from immigration to gun control, making the border the nexus of national security and public safety concerns. Drawing on fieldwork along the border and interviews with officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Department of Defense, U.S. Border Patrol, and Mexican military officers, Paul Rexton Kan argues that policy responses must be carefully calibrated to prevent stoking more cartel violence, to cut the incentives to smuggle drugs into the United States, and to stop the erosion of Mexican governmental capacity.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Agnes Gereben Schaefer
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833047191
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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The backdrop of a deteriorating security situation in Mexico and change in administration in the United States demands a closer examination of potential priorities and policy options to guide future U.S.-Mexico relations. To help inform debate, this study examined a set of policy options for the United States (strategic partnership, status quo, and retrenchment), along with potential policy priorities that hold promise for Mexico's security.

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Languages : en
Pages : 41

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Recent history shows that concentrated efforts by the United States to counter the use of illegal drugs in this country is by no means a new phenomena. Each President since Nixon has targeted this problem in their own way. It was President Nixon, in 1969, who launched the war on drugs by significantly increasing the budget and by bringing in other agencies to help in the drug enforcement effort. President Reagan declared his war on drugs shortly after taking office and paved the to way for military involvement. Reagan targeted efforts against the cartel bases operating in Colombia, thinking these efforts would defeat the growing drug problem. President Bush s strategy called for increased drug enforcement efforts against the Andean countries of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. To fund this increased military involvement, the military funding for drug enforcement increased from $357 million in 1989 to more than $1 billion by 1992, according to Eva Bertram in her book Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial. Drug use in America had fallen dramatically; however, drug enforcement agencies still faced a daunting task. President Clinton did not believe a high-profile war on drugs suited his political agenda. He initially took efforts to deemphasize the drug war, favoring a social policy of drug addiction treatment, believing this would decrease demand. However, demand instead increased, especially amongst the teenage population of the US. This increased demand lead President Clinton to stepup efforts abroad to fight the war on drugs. The policy of the United States government toward the war on drugs has been inductive; however, a deductive strategy is necessary. Colonel John Warden, the architect of the Gulf War campaign, has developed a five ring model as a way to analyze a complex system and target specific sections, or rings to induce paralysis.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Publisher:
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Category : Cartels
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781477463253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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March 2011, a law enforcement bulletin warned that cartels were overheard plotting to kill ICE agents and Texas Rangers guarding the border using AK-47s by shooting at them from across the border. These are acts of terrorism as defined by Federal law. The shooting of Special Agents Zapata and Avila is a game-changer which alters the landscape of the United States' involvement in Mexico's war against the drug cartels. For the first time in 25 years the cartels are now targeting American law enforcement.

Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983763922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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The rise of the Mexican drug cartels and U.S. national security : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 9, 2009.

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Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3178

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Over 3,100 total pages ... CONTENTS: The Nexus of Extremism and Trafficking: Scourge of the World or So Much Hype? Crossing Our Red Lines About Partner Engagement in Mexico Two Faces of Attrition: Analysis of a Mismatched Strategy against Mexican and Central American Drug Traffickers Combating Drug Trafficking: Variation in the United States' Military Cooperation with Colombia and Mexico Ungoverned Spaces in Mexico: Autodefensas, Failed States, and the War on Drugs in Michoacan U.S. SOUTHWEST BORDER SECURITY: AN OPERATIONAL APPROACH TWO WARS: OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS AND THE WAR ON DRUGS WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE WAR ON DRUGS? AN ASSESSMENT OF MEXICO’S COUNTERNARCOTICS STRATEGY THE DIVERSIFICATION OF MEXICAN TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ITS EFFECTS ON SPILLOVER VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations: Matching Strategy to Threat THE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON CITIZEN SECURITY BEHAVIOR IN MEXICO Combating Transnational Organized Crime: Strategies and Metrics for the Threat Beyond Merida: A Cooperative Counternarcotics Strategy for the 21st Century MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AND TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, A NEW ALLIANCE? THE EFFECTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES OF MEXICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS (DTOs) DRUG TRAFFICKING AND POLICE CORRUPTION: A COMPARISON OF COLOMBIA AND MEXICO CRISIS IN MEXICO: ASSESSING THE MÉRIDA INITIATIVE AND ITS IMPACT ON US-MEXICAN SECURITY BORDER SECURITY: IS IT ACHIEVABLE ON THE RIO GRANDE? Borders and Borderlands in the Americas PREVENTING BULK CASH AND WEAPONS SMUGGLING INTO MEXICO: ESTABLISHING AN OUTBOUND POLICY ON THE SOUTHWEST BORDER FOR CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTON DRUG TRAFFICKING WITHIN MEXICO: A LAW ENFORCEMENT ISSUE OR INSURGENCY? USSOCOM’s Role in Addressing Human Trafficking Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence National Security Threats at the U.S.-Mexico Border Merida Initiative: Proposed U.S. Anticrime and Counterdrug Assistance for Mexico and Central America COCAINE TRAFFICKING THROUGH WEST AFRICA: THE HYBRIDIZED ILLICIT NETWORK AS AN EMERGING TRANSNATIONAL THREAT ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN MEXICO, 1999-2002 Is the Narco-violence in Mexico an Insurgency? THE USE OF TERRORISM BY DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS’ PARAMILITARY GROUPS IN MEXICO An Approach to the 40-Year Drug War EXPLOITING WEAKNESSES: AN APPROACH TO COUNTER CARTEL STRATEGY MEXICO AND THE COCAINE EPIDEMIC: THE NEW COLOMBIA OR A NEW PROBLEM? EXPLAINING VARIATION IN THE APPREHENSION OF MEXICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING CARTEL LEADERS Drug Cartels and Gangs in Mexico and Central America: A View through the Lens of Counterinsurgency The COIN Approach to Mexican Drug Cartels: Square Peg in a Round Hole Counterinsurgency and the Mexican Drug War THE UNTOLD STORY OF MEXICO’S RISE AND EVENTUAL MONOPOLY OF THE METHAMPHETAMINE TRADE Competing with the Cartels: How Mexico's Government Can Reduce Organized Crime's Economic Grip on its People FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN MEXICO: LESSONS FROM COLOMBIA Defeating Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: The Range of Military Operations in Mexico Drug Trafficking as a Lethal Regional Threat in Central America What Explains the Patterns of Diversification in Drug Trafficking Organizations Evaluating the Impact of Drug Trafficking Organizations on the Stability of the Mexican State

Author: Sylvia Longmire
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230340555
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years, building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate tunnels that both move drugs north and carry cash and U.S. high-powered assault weapons back to fuel the drug war. Channeling her long experience working on border issues, Longmire brings to life the very real threat of Mexican cartels operating not just along the southwest border, but deep inside every corner of the United States. She also offers real solutions to the critical problems facing Mexico and the United States, including programs to deter youth in Mexico from joining the cartels and changing drug laws on both sides of the border.