Mexico's Fox under fire as drug war spirals

[True_Blue]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In the first four years after Mexican President Vicente Fox took office, he became Washington's sweetheart in its war on drugs with his crackdown on traffickers.

But an escalating gangland turf war that has killed at least 600 people south of the U.S. border this year has soured the romance, with serious doubts raised about Fox's ability to rein in the violence.

A senior U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official, Anthony Placido, told Congress last week that Mexico's corrupt police forces were "all too often part of the problem rather than part of the solution" in fighting the drug cartels.

Fox won office in 2000, ending 71 years of one-party rule and promising to clamp down on the multibillion-dollar cross-border trade in cocaine, marijuana and heroin.

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[killbotfactory]

1. prohibition doesn't work

when will these idiots get a fucking clue?

[Chauga]

2. Nobody cares about the war on drugs unless...

it'll help them get elected.