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Weekly Report - 27 May 2010 (WR-10-21)

US makes move on Mexico as Calderón changes rhetoric

Less than a week after President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa addressed a joint session of the US congress, the US administration leaked the information that it was about to send 1,200 troops to the Mexican border. Almost certainly, the US had tipped Mexico off about the deployment because the foreign ministry immediately issued a statement, on 25 May, portraying the move as part of an effort by the US administration to bear down on the flow of guns from the US to gangs in Mexico. In the US, the deployment was spun, initially at least, as a move to improve border security and restrict the flow of people and drugs north.

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