UN General Assembly
2011

continue to strengthen our institutions, to reform our security forces, to strengthen our presence on the ground in order to protect our young people from criminal gangs. At the regional level we are working together and have undertaken significant steps in a common undertaking by sharing strategies and tasks with Mexico, Colombia and the United States. Of course, these are truly difficult challenges that lie ahead. Many of these challenges were referred to by the President of Mexico — the fight against money- laundering, disarmament, crime prevention, an effective judiciary — and will require the reform of our judicial organs. Inevitably, organized crime has infiltrated the organs of the State, in particular the judiciary and the police forces. That is why we must wage a strong fight in order to clean up those institutions. But the consumer countries, in this case chiefly the United States, are morally responsible in this struggle that must be seen not only as a criminal problem but also as a matter of public health. While drugs consumption and narcotics use grow, the