| Putting an End to Mexico's Drug War, or is Pena Nieto Testing US Ties? Al Jazeera | |
| go to original May 1, 2013 |
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Barack Obama, the US president, and Enrique Pena Nieto, his Mexican counterpart, are set to meet Thursday in the Mexican capital.
The meeting between the two American leaders comes amid reports that Mexico City is shifting its security strategy, and shutting Washington out of its counter-narcotics operations.
One of the most striking policy initiatives unveiled by Pena Nieto is the shift in strategy to tackle the crime associated with the country's drug cartels. In February, he promised to invest billions of dollars in social programmes to address the root causes of crime.
He detailed part of his new strategy which will focus on prevention, rather than the deployment of thousands of troops to kill cartel leaders.
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