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Calderón Calls for United Front to Combat Transnational Organized Crime
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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October 29, 2010
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia - President Felipe Calderón declared that Central American countries will only be able to compete and win in the challenges posed by the global world if they are united.
 |  | Because if our greatest desire is development, our greatest obstacle is precisely transnational organized crime, which knows no borders and poisons our youth and our populations with extortion, kidnapping and homicidal violence. |  | | |
During the Inauguration of the 12th Summit of the Tuxtla Dialogue and Agreement Mechanism in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the Mexican president said that although the Tuxtla Mechanism and the Mesoamerican Project are instruments for uniting the region, there are several lags still to be overcome, as a result of which he urged them to be more active and reach agreements.
“Over the years, we have examined several ways of strengthening our concerted actions at our meetings. Unfortunately, we have not always managed to translate the political will present at these meetings into complete, concrete actions and strategies.
We want our nations to be able to advance along the path of progress. I know that we will be able to do so insofar as we are capable to working together in a coordinated fashion,” he said.
At the Julio César Turbay Ayal Convention Center, the President said that another of the challenges facing the region is transnational organized crime. He called for a regional agreement, which could take place within the Tuxtla Summit and a united front against transnational crime.
“Because if our greatest desire is development, our greatest obstacle is precisely transnational organized crime, which knows no borders and poisons our youth and our populations with extortion, kidnapping and homicidal violence.
And we cannot cope with it effectively from our national borders if we do so in an isolated fashion. We need regional agreement and a sense of urgency,” he said.
President Calderón recalled that one of the reasons for making a concerted effort which led to the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue and Agreement was democracy, achieved by each country and defended from the dangers that prey on it.
“Dialogue, integration and cooperation for development are undoubtedly powerful tools for coping with it but the best and most powerful of all is undoubtedly the institutional and democratic life that now characterizes the region.
We should not only not lose it but strengthen it every day. And just as we have advanced in the construction of democratic institutions, today we must use international cooperation to improve our institutions so that they provide security and justice for our nations and at the same time, reinforce the exchange and financing mechanisms that will permit the development to which we aspire,” he explained.
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