Recently added articles from Borderlines:
Deepening U.S.-Mexico security cooperation: as NAFTA's anti-narcotics apparatus focuses on public security, human rights activists grow worried. (news).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Contrary to complaints from Beltway pundits regarding Mexico's "tepid" response to the September 11 attacks in the United States, the United States' southern neighbor has quickly jumped on board U.S. President George W. Bush's anti-terror bandwagon. Though Mexico has declined to ...
Spreading U.S. policing strategies overseas. (news).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Sensitive to criticisms that Mexican police are corrupt and inefficient, high-level Mexican politicians from across the political spectrum are supporting foreign police training of their own cops in the name of professionalization. In addition to North Americans, French, Israeli and Cuban ...
The Leahy law. (news).
Dec 01, 2001; ... A thorny issue tied to the U.S. police training is the Leahy Amendment of the Foreign Operations Act, which bars U.S. assistance to security forces that engage in human rights violations and don't punish the responsible individuals. Since virtually all of the Mexican agencies ...
Militarization of policing. (news).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Consciously or not, U.S. support for current Mexican law enforcement strategies bolsters the ongoing militarization of police work south of the border, a trend which picked up speed after Mexico's 1995 approval of a new national security law. The most visible military representative in ...
North American security relations at the crossroads. (news).
Dec 01, 2001; ... As Washington overhauls its own law enforcement apparatus to fight the "war against terrorism," it remains to be seen how far Mexico City will go with the new war and to what degree the two governments will redefine and restructure their police training and cooperation programs to fit the ...