Biden and Calderon to talk narco violence and U.S.-Mexico trade

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Express-News

Biden and Calderon to talk narco violence and U.S.-Mexico trade
By Gary Martin
Updated 07:47 p.m., Sunday, March 4, 2012

WASHINGTON — Confronting cartel violence and combating drug smuggling along the Southwest border will top the list of security concerns that Vice President Joe Biden will discuss today in Mexico City with President Felipe Calderón and three presidential candidates.

Biden will continue on to Honduras to meet with Central American leaders during a two-day trip to the region, White House officials said.

While in Mexico, Biden will also meet with presidential candidates from the country's three major political parties seeking to succeed Calderón when his six-year term ends this year.

Biden wants to hear from each candidate on “how they would lead the country and the concerns that they see the Mexican people having,” said Tony Blinkin, national security adviser to the vice president.

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[SharonAnn]

1. In Guatemala last week, my relatives said narco-money is destroying their country.

The said that it causes corruption in their:
police department
judiciary
elected officials
military, etc.

They asked me to do what I can to get drugs legalized so that they can get their country back.

Guatemala is a corridor to Mexico and then the the United States.

[yurbud]

2. if major banks didn't launder their money, that would substantially put the screws to

the problem.

But it would also cut into Wall Street profits, so it's as likely as seeing prosecutions for mortgage backed derivatives fraud (apart from a few token janitors and interns).