Obama's Mexico Trip: What They Probably Won't Say, But Should Dudley Althaus - GlobalPost
go to original April 30, 2013

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Amid the clamor framing President Barack Obama's overnight stop in Mexico's capital Thursday, smarter folk will be listening to the sounds of silence.

Because in such whistle-stop summits national leaders usually strive to accentuate the positive.

But more than the happy chatter — about trade, economic reforms and enduring friendships — what Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto don't say, at least publicly, may be more telling about their countries' close but often conflicted relationship.

Analysts say US officials privately have been chewing nails over what might be Peña's dismantling of their close involvement in Mexico's six-year campaign against its crime lords.

Washington has sunk $1.9 billion in equipment and training for Mexican security forces as part of that effort.

The drug war, which in Mexico has claimed some 70,000 lives and left another 25,000 missing, so far has failed to curtail either drugs heading to US consumers or gangsters preying on Mexican communities.

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