A new timeline on Reuters encouraged us to check in on the drug war.
Yesterday, the news company issued a new timeline of key points in the U.S.-Latin America drug war, including President Nixon setting up the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973 and President Clinton gifting Colombia with $1.3 billion in aid under Plan Colombia.
In other drug news:
Mexico plans to send 2,000 more elite police toward the United States border.
A big drug bust in South Carolina was tipped off by a traffic stop. They connected the traffickers to marijuana shipped from Mexico.
And the Christian Science Monitor has a story on the three stages of corruption with a few suggestions of how Mexico can follow Colombia's lead. In Mexico, 27 percent of the Congressional members who were elected in 2006 are under suspicion of "colluding with paramilitaries," according to the article.
Sources: Reuters, WSPA, CSM
Photo: Mexico, from AP
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