U.S. Lags In Vow To Help Battle Cartels -- Houston Chronicle
After 3 years, much equipment still hasn't been sent to Mexico
WASHINGTON - Nearly three years have come — and gone - since the United States agreed in 2008 to provide equipment and training worth $1.5 billion to Mexico in an effort to help combat raging drug violence.
Yet, despite pledges by two White House administrations to fix the bureaucratic problems besetting the so-called Merida Initiative, barely 59 percent of the promised U.S. spending has been completed, according to the State Department's latest accounting.
And with the toll of horrific killings in Mexico mounting, the yardstick for success is even more elusive.
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My Comment: Meanwhile .... on the ground in Mexico .... the narco wars are reaching levels of barbarity never before seen in modern Latin America, with even the narco gangsters now wearing uniforms and insignia to identify who they are.
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