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Security & Strategic Review October 2007 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO-US: 'Plan Mexico' emerges modest and uncertain
The only thing that is certain about what the media and many politicians continue to call Plan Mexico [SSR-07-09], but officials want known as Iniciativa Mérida, is that US President George Bush Jr has formally asked the US Congress to appropriate US$500m for it in 2008. The declared intention is to add another US$900m over the following two years. The bulk of the funds is meant to go towards upgrading the technological capabilities and mobility of anti-drugs resources. Whether it is approved depends largely on the fate of the broader US$46bn supplementary appropriations package intended for the war in Iraq, to which the Mexican initiative is attached.
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