Security & Strategic Review -May 2007
MEXICO-US: No Mexican version of 'Plan Colombia'
It sounded like big news: in pursuance of a March agreement between presidents George Bush Jr and Felipe Calderón, the US is considering a big increase in assistance to Mexico, to help contain the growing drug-related violence - a 'Plan Mexico' somehow analogous to Plan Colombia. The matter was indeed discussed by the presidents when they last met, but they reached no agreement, and neither government is happy to draw comparisons with Plan Colombia. Right now the problem for Mexico is to get Washington to halt a downward slippage in its annual grants of military and police aid.
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