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Mexico's War
US contractors teaching torture
techniques to Mexican Police.
This week Inside USA travels to
Mexico to look at the country's drug war and to examine the role
the US is playing in it.
The bodies are piling up - over 1,800 killings so far this year
alone.
In the media it is usually portrayed as a campaign by Felipe
Calderon, the Mexican president, to smash the power of Mexico's
drug cartels.
About 25,000 military troops and federal police have flooded
into a number of cities.
The US is also wading into the fight with approximately a
billion and a half dollars of direct military aid being pledged
by George Bush.
Called the Merida initiative, or Plan Mexico, the move follows a
similar blueprint to the widely criticised, and ultimately
failed, Plan Colombia.
Inside USA -
Broadcast on Aljazeera English 18/07/08
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