Policies meant to push narcotics trafficking out of the Caribbean and destroy Colombia's Medellin and Cali cartels have produced the unwelcome side effect of funnelling drugs through Mexico on their way to the American market. To Look The Other Way. Open Door to Anarchy. Largely due to the North American Free Trade Agreement, our border with Mexico has become an expressway for the importation of narcotics. A Mexican Firing Squad.
Corruption hinders drug investigations.
U.S.-Mexico Counterdrug Cooperation. Issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Report to Congress, Vol 1. The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico. . University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. San Diego, CA, University of California.