The United States counter narcotics to Mexico focusses on the drug shipments, most importantly through the U.S. - Mexico border. I personally think that there should be an expansion for counter narcotics in every way because drugs are still getting in and what they are doing isn’t enough. The administration of Felipe Calderón has asked the United States to put more effort into this and combating the cartel violence. United States putting effort against the drug cartels are also a very important thing to protect their own security. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) little time ago said that the United States help has improved Mexico’s way to combat drug trafficking. They also have said that the cooperation between them has gotten better in the last years but there is always room to improve as my dad always says. GAO also said that United States should get permission to go in Mexican boats that look suspicious and maybe are carrying drugs. The Mexican government counter narcotic operations would fail if they don’t get enough help from the United States with reducing arm trafficking to Mexico, stop the money going back to Mexico and of course stop the United States demand for drugs. Asking for help from the United States is a very sensible thing in Mexico, because they are a country that is very careful with United States going in. United States criticism of drug trafficking and crime in Mexico is very unfair in my point of view because almost all of the drugs on Mexican territory are for the consumption of the United States. There was a big trust problem between Mexico and United States and it began to get much better when President Vicente Fox came into power as the first Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN) candidate (2000-2006). There was a report saying that the United States helping package to Mexico will be total of $1.5 billion and another $7 billion from Mexico. Tis project can include other drug countries too in Central America. Mexico’s “Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs” Carlos Rico said that the United States probably would give $1 billion in military help to combat the drug cartels. No United States troops were deployed and it came to a settlement that this would be a “historic” opportunity to improve the relation between United States and Mexico. Since it was the last year of President Calderon and he just left office (Mexican presidents can only be in office for 6 years) he needed to leave with a good image about the United States involvement. Both countries need to fight against this serious problem that is happening in Mexico but they should work to protect each other and make their relationship stronger throughout this process.
