Ruben Navarrette: Reconsidering US Support for Mexico's Drug War Ruben Navarrette - Statesman Journal
go to original January 12, 2015

After last week’s visit to the White House by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, it’s time to rethink US support for the Mexican government’s war against the drug cartels.

Why? Because something is not right. Thousands of Mexicans in the United States greeted Pena Nieto’s arrival by doing what thousands of their compadres have done in Mexico for several weeks — screaming bloody murder. Protesters say that Pena Nieto is either incompetent or in cahoots with the cartels, and it’s hard to believe anyone could be this incompetent.

The people of Mexico, who have long distrusted their leaders and have lost their romance for drug traffickers, have come up with an ominous term to describe the two-headed dragon: “narco-gobierno” (drug trafficker government).

While the common view in the United States is that, south of the border, the Mexican government is bravely battling a well-financed web of drug syndicates, many Mexicans have now concluded that these two entities are one and the same.

What if they’re right? What if — while the United States is partnering with the Mexican government to fight the drug war — the Mexican government is also partnering with the cartels?

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