Colombia’s So-Called Successful Drug Policy Provides the Bait for a Mexican Disaster: A Perspective on President Calderón’s Militarized Drug “Conflict”
Colombia’s never ending conflict with the country’s drug dealers has demonstrably decreased since the mid-1990s, although the U.S. public’s demand for foreign narcotics has not.1 While Washington’s anti-narcotics efforts have succeeded in reducing the tempo of drug production and transport out of Colombia, it also has facilitated a massive boom in Mexican drug trafficking as well. Although the face of the drug conflict in Mexico is similar to that which has been seen in Colombia, the causes and the probable solutions to Mexico’s tectonic drug-eradication problem remain distinct. Mexico’s meteoric rise in drug trafficking deserves to be seen as the result of the successes and failures of a U.S. policy that originally was applied to Colombia and later moved on to Mexico.
This analysis was prepared by Elsa Treviño
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 | Research Memorandum 11.2
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