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US Ambassador: 'No to Negotation with Drug Cartels'
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January 25, 2010
| | US Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual says war must go on; praises Juarez move. | |
Washington - US Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual said Sunday that under no circumstance should drug cartels in Mexico be negotiated with, because this would imply a deepening of their “dirty business.”
“What organized crime wants is to take control at the municipal level to maintain their dirty business, that will always be dirty and will never be good for the country,” said the diplomat.
He warned that “the solution is not to negotiate with them and give them control, because they will still continue fighting against each other. And the more that one relinquishes control to drug traffickers, the more they will establish themselves in all cities and deepen their roots.”
Pascual argued that in Mexico there is political consensus that the fight against drug trafficking must not be given up.
“I have spoken with representatives of the three principal political parties. All confirm that this fight against drug cartels must go on,” said the diplomat.
Pascual said that he did not believe that the fight against the cartels would diminish after the 2012 elections. However, he said that he considered it “just” that there is public debate about the design of strategies and the most effective ways to manage public policies.
The diplomat said that the U.S. is committed to assisting Mexico with the exchange of more information and intelligence and that other socio-economic investments are being analyzed, including job creation, public spaces, infrastructure, education centers, and youth programs.
Pascual also praised the Mexican government's new security strategy for Ciudad Juarez that shifts control from the military to federal police forces, calling it “an intelligent and proper measure.”
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