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Posted on 10/02/2007 6:27:45 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1 -- Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels and stepped-up border enforcement have disrupted the flow of illegal drugs and caused cocaine supply shortages in 37 U.S. cities, including Washington, according to a report scheduled for release Tuesday by the White House...Cocaine prices have nearly doubled in some cities and soared from a nationwide average of $95.89 a gram during the first quarter of this year to $118.70 in the second quarter, the report says. Law enforcement officials track drug supply levels in part by monitoring prices...
Larry Birns of the nonprofit Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a critic of U.S. drug policy, dismissed the numbers as "seasonal" blips....
...the Bush administration says it is engaged in reshaping its drug strategy along nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The strategic counternarcotics plan, which Walters plans to release Tuesday in San Diego after meeting with state, federal and local law enforcement officials, calls for more efficient distribution of information among U.S. agencies and for U.S. officials to share more information with Mexican law enforcement...the summary also says the United States will increase resources dedicated to stopping drugs at ports of entry along the border by employing "ground-breaking technology and time-tested tactics, such as the use of K-9 units." The plan also calls for the deployment of more aircraft to "eliminate air travel's utility to criminals."
The U.S. plan praises Mexico, saying President Felipe Calderon's "recent aggressive actions have sent a strong and promising signal." Mexico destroys most of the opium and marijuana crops there each year...Mexico has been particularly effective at reducing importation of chemicals used to produce methamphetamines...
The impact of reduced cocaine supplies is already being felt, Walters says. Positive results in workplace drug tests have dropped in an "unprecedented" fashion...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Increased Enforcement Disrupts Drug Supply From Mexico, White House Says”
OK, we agree with this. When do you plan on doing it?
The last I saw of Calderon, he was at a PAN campaign rally in CA telling the faithful that Mexico was demanding that the USA grant amnesty to Mexicans squatting in this country.
I had no idea he was such a drug fighter, but if Presidente Bush says so, I guess we just have to believe him.
Terrible news. The Ron Paul crowd is going to be damn cranky during their withdrawal. Those threads are going to be even more vitriolic.
Yeah right.
Good news. Let’s hope the enforcement trend continues.
I don't believe any of this post, especially this particular remark. Stepped up border enforcement? How does that jibe with the increase in illegals screaming across the border? If we have more illegals coming across then it stands to reason we have more drugs comming across. If there is a shortage of cocaine, then maybe it is because they are sumggling other drugs in instead. I notice they don't say there is an amphetimine shortage or a MJ shortage.
Calderon has been a straight arrow and extremely cooperative on drug enforcement. I do not find it hateful that he is advocating for Mexicans in the U.S. He is their President and that is his job, whether we like it or not. The problem isn’t that he is representing the interests of Mexicans in the U.S., but rather, that we the people of the U.S. have so few in this country representing OUR interests.
Well, most journalists are probably on coke, so that would be natural. ;-)
Yes, the article was oddly written. Could have been about gas shortages causing a rise in price... women and children harmed and all that. There’s not been a decrease in illegals crossing into the US so I can’t see how there’s a decrease in drugs. Most likely it’s that dealers know they have their customers over a barrel and can charge any price they wish.
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Perhaps you're on to something :)
“Cities found to have cocaine shortages,”
They took a positive and made it a negative. So once again its Bush’s fault.
Pure B.S.
http://www.enewscourier.com/homepage/local_story_274224441.html
LOL.....Only taken 30 plus years of our *so-called* WOD to figure this out ???
Positive results in workplace drug tests have dropped in an "unprecedented" fashion...
"*Workplace* drug tests have dropped"......ANY results to report on WELFARE RECIPIENTS drug testing ???
Politicians think we are too stupid to think for ourselves so they tell us what they think we want to hear. blah blah blah
If the White House was really trying to stop drug smuggling across the border, they wouldn’t be giving Mexican drug dealers immunity to testify against Border Patrol agents who were actually stopping drug smuggling across the border.
The White House says one thing but their actions tell a different story.
lol... I guess some people will believe anything.
The US could buy up the world’s supply of cocaine by going to Bolivia and Columbia and dealing directly with the growers. It would cost a lot less than the ‘war on drugs’.
Repeat with the opium growers in Laos, Turkey, Afghanistan, etc.
The growers still get their money, we corner the world’s supply of these drugs, and only the middlemen (the drug dealing cartels) are left out.
But methinks there are too many people in too many places profiting from the drug trade for anything like this to be done. . .
You might be able to do that one year, but the next year there would be twice as much, the next, 4 times as much, the next 8 times as much. Supply expands to meet demand, and can expand far beyond our ability to pay. All we would be doing is increasing demand. I imagine drug growers all over the world would be very much in favor of us doing what you suggest however.
Thought they had already started putting agents in jail for shooting the scum.
What a load of crappola. Mexico may be destroying pot crops there, because their drug cartels are all in the USA growing it on thousands of acres of 'protected' habit in our national parks and forest. Homeland security says it isn't their problem!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/09/mexican-border-has-moved-800-miles.html
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