Hillary Clinton’s Dark Drug War Legacy in Mexico

Clinton’s State Department overlooked human rights abuses and corruption while keeping a lucrative flow of contracts moving to U.S. security firms working in Mexico.

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Hillary Clinton’s Dark Drug War Legacy in Mexico Soa-watch-drug-war-mexico-merida-722x481

Mexico, John M. Ackerman wrote recently for Foreign Policy, “is not a functional democracy.” Instead, it’s a “repressive and corrupt” oligarchy propped up by a “blank check” from Washington.

Since 2008, that blank check has come to over $2.5 billion appropriated in security aid through the Mérida Initiative, a drug war security assistance program funded by Washington. Negotiated behind closed doors in the last years of the Bush administration, the plan was originally proposed as a three-year program. Yet Hillary Clinton’s State Department pushed aggressively to extend it, overseeing a drastic increase of the initiative that continues today.

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Hillary Clinton’s Dark Drug War Legacy in Mexico

Hillary Clinton’s Dark Drug War Legacy in Mexico

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