Mexico Anti-Cartel Aid: Still Strangling in Red Tape
Ray Walser /
While Mexico’s drug cartel violence continues to mount and the recent sophisticated car bombing in Ciudad Juarez indicate possible foreign assistance to the drug lords, the Obama Administration received a less than stellar grade from the Government Accounting Office on its handling of delivery of help to the embattled Mexicans.
The latest report from the Government Accounting Office presented in Congress on July 21 reported:
The pace of delivery of the supplies had picked up, the Washington Post, summarized, with the U.S. government providing five Bell helicopters, biometric equipment, forensics material and canine teams to the Mexicans. The U.S. government has helped train over 4,000 officers at Mexico’s federal police academy. But it concluded, “a significant amount of equipment and training intended to be provided under the initiative is still pending delivery. This includes at least a dozen helicopters, four airplanes, 200 polygraph units and “multiple professionalization programs and projects.”