The demonstrators on Tuesday outside the White House and in 12 other cities want the U.S. to take a more hardline stance against the human rights’ abuses in Mexico – something akin to how Washington reacts to places like Venezuela and Iran – and cut funding for the Mérida Initiative – also pejoratively known as Plan Mexico – which is a security agreement between the two countries signed in 2008 that, among other things, has provided $2.1 billion to Mexico to combat drug trafficking in the country. While the Initiative is loosely modeled after a similar effort in Colombia, many critics claim that the plan is doing more harm than good – citing as evidence the widespread corruption in Mexico’s civil police forces and a soaring murder rate since its implementation. Plan Mexico has been an abject and utter failure, Lovato said. You claim to be fighting the cartels, but you’re giving money to the people who are helping these cartels.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:37:12 +0000
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