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Weekly Report - 22 January 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: CIA rates Mexico as big a problem as Iran
Michael Hayden, the outgoing director of the US Central Intelligence
Agency, said on 16 January that Mexico was now, along with Iran, one of the
major foreign policy problems for the incoming US President, Barack Obama.
Hayden's comments underline how worried senior US policymakers are about what is
happening in Mexico. A week earlier, the outgoing National Security Adviser,
Stephen Hadley, became the first senior serving official to say that the US was
extremely worried about the drug gangs' challenge to the Mexican government.
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