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Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war
    #7474796 - 10/01/07 05:38 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war
By Lizbeth Diaz
October 1, 2007 - Reuters

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico and the United States are claiming an important breakthrough in the drugs war, citing record lows in U.S. cocaine supplies, fewer gangland murders and the capture of several powerful traffickers.

The average price of a gram of cocaine on U.S. streets rose 24 percent between January and June to $118.70, its highest level in at least five years, because of tight supplies, U.S. anti-drug officials say.

Cocaine purity fell 11 percent in the same period, indicating that less is entering the United States.

"This impact is historic, this is real progress," said Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

John Walters, the White House "drug czar", will officially announce the figures on Tuesday in San Diego.

Some U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents now predict a long-term decline in cocaine trade across their border, in contrast to a booming market for the drug in Europe.

But similar claims in the past have proven short-lived as Colombian and Mexican drug lords found new routes for South American cocaine into the United States.

Still, an army crackdown on drug gangs by President Felipe Calderon does seem to be hurting Mexican smugglers who ship most of the cocaine northward.

Since taking office last December, Calderon has sent some 25,000 troops to bring order to areas where the gangs are strong like the western state of Michoacan.

The military operations are causing control of the cartels to crumble, which in turn has broken down the narcotics delivery chain into the United States, said Victor Manuel Zatarain, a senior police intelligence chief in Tijuana.

The city, 20 miles from San Diego, is home to a cartel that runs drugs up the Pacific coast and over the land border into California.

Under Calderon's crackdown, executions between Mexican rival gangs have dropped from a peak in March when dozens of bodies were found every day.

Still, about 2,000 people have died so far this year in turf wars mainly between the Gulf Cartel and an alliance of traffickers from Sinaloa state.

Police in the northern state of Nuevo Leon were digging on Monday at a suspected mass grave sites where around 15 people killed in drug violence might be buried.

EXTRADITIONS

Mexico has extradited some of the country's most prominent traffickers to the United States this year, including Osiel Cardenas, head of the notorious Gulf Cartel based just south of Texas. Last week, Mexican police caught Sandra Avila, an important smuggler known as the "Queen of the Pacific."

A source close to the Gulf Cartel said the gangs are only lying low, avoiding the kind of high-level murders that provoked the army crackdown.

"The Gulf Cartel took a decision to stop the violence. It was attracting too much attention and getting in the way of business," the source said in the border city of Matamoros.

The United States is helping Mexican efforts with better coastal surveillance, causing a sharp rise in cocaine seizures along the Pacific and in Florida this year.

Mexico is also allowing Colombian anti-drug agents to infiltrate drug gangs in its country, Colombia's Attorney General Mario Iguaran said on Monday.

"With undercover agents ... when a plane or boat leaves Colombia, Mexican authorities are already alerted," he told an anti-drug meeting in Mexico City.

But some officials and drug trade experts warn that the Mexican cartels are regrouping.

"As cartel leaders are captured, other high-ranking members of the organization step up and take their place. The cartels, particularly the Gulf Cartel, remain strong. The story is not over yet," said Michael Sanders, a Washington-based special agent at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

A military crackdown launched in Tijuana in January has fizzled out due to a lack of intelligence, local police say.

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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: veggie]
    #7474808 - 10/01/07 05:43 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

'Major victory in the drug war' What a crock. Such audacity to make such a claim. Billions of dollars spent, untold number of people killed, incarcerated, and lives ruined because of this 'war on drugs' and their main proof of victory is that a gram of blow went from a little less than $100 to a little more than $100.

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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: veggie]
    #7474831 - 10/01/07 05:50 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

"Cocaine purity fell 11 percent in the same period"

thats a good thing? now people are doing cocaine mixed with even more bullshit. Viggie is right. they think they are winning in this war on drugs. but what are they winning? nothing, they are just making things worst.


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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: Groomies]
    #7474834 - 10/01/07 05:51 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Coke prices actually dropped here... so...


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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: StrandedVoyager]
    #7474995 - 10/01/07 06:29 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

wtf, DOes coke really cost most americans that much? Its usually 30-40 a gram here.


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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: veggie]
    #7475159 - 10/01/07 07:17 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

>Some U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents now predict a long-term decline in cocaine trade across their border

So a vague number of Mexican and US law enforcement (long reguarded for their good education) are making a prediction about cocaine traffic declining across the border?

I will predict the same based on that knowledge! :thumbup:


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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: Drewwyann]
    #7475178 - 10/01/07 07:26 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Prices are down here also. Purity has been fairly good. None of the that might be the best shit I ever did around but there also seems to be none of that bullshit shit around. Just steady good blow.


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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: veggie]
    #7475181 - 10/01/07 07:26 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

veggie said:
A military crackdown launched in Tijuana in January has fizzled out due to a lack of intelligence




:lol:

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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: Le_Canard]
    #7476056 - 10/02/07 12:14 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

according to last weekends experiences, the products have been exceptionally good around here...SORRY!  :devil:

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Re: Mexico, U.S. claim major victory in drugs war [Re: SunshineDaydream]
    #7479324 - 10/02/07 11:30 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

If victory is a synonym for cluelessness and drugs is a synonym for liberty, congratulations DEA! Woot!

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