Drug War Capitalism (43 page)

25 Berdal and Malone, “Introduction,” 91.

26 UNODC, “World Drug Report, 2010,” 2010, http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/World_Drug_Report_2010_lo-res.pdf, 18.

27 Global Commission on Drug Policy. “Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work.” September, 2014. P. 13.

28
What I describe as the first component includes the “Pillars” called “Institutionalize Reforms to Sustain Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights” and “Build Strong and Resilient Communities.” US GAO, “Mérida Initiative
,” 33.

29
USAID. “US AID History.” June 11, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2012,
http://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/usaid-history.

30 USAID, “The State Department and USAID Budget,” http://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/9276/FactSheet_StateUSAIDBudget.pdf.

31 US State Department, “Congressional Budget,” 620.

32 Ibid.

33 Ibid.

34 Eva Hershaw, “Aztec Tiger,”
Ozy
(December 5, 2013), http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/mexico-preps-for-a-comeback/4093.article.

35 Victor
Renuart Jr. and Biff Baker, “U.S.-Mexico Homeland Defense: A Compatible Interface,”
Strategic Forum
, National Defense University, February 2010,
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/docs/11-23/ch_10.asp.

36 T.
Padgett, “Mexico’s Peña Nieto Talks to
TIME
: ‘We Can Move Beyond the Drug War’,”
Time
(November 30, 2012),
http://world.time.com/2012/11/30/mexicos-pena-nieto-talks-to-time-we-can-move-beyond-the-drug-war/#ixzz2PvNnOdBf.

37 US
GAO, “Mérida Initiative
,” 29.

38
USAID Mission to Mexico, “Competitiveness Program: 2nd Quarter FY 2010,” January–March 2010,
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACR720.pdf.

39
USAID. “USAID/Mexico Annual Program Statement (APS),” January 30, 2012,
http://www07.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=
TJgHRLlPMVzGSg2cXvSMjwRHSvGsBKD7hGGqCPfrv8VQ5BnXCrGW
!-861966415?attId=113385
, 11.

40 Magdalena
Lara Monroy, ed.,
Acciones Cruciales en competencia y regulación
, Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A.C., 2011,
http://accionescruciales
.cidac.org/documentos/acciones.pdf.

41
USAID, “Mexico: Country Overview,”
http://transition.usaid.gov/mx/index
.html.

42
Monroy,
Acciones Cruciales
.

43
Abt Associates, “Mexico Competitiveness Program,”
http://www.abtassociates.com/Websites/2012/Mexico-Competitiveness-Program.aspx
. Abt has its roots firmly planted in defense and war: “Abt Associates focused on transferring defense-related technology and systems to civilian application, such as the nation’s War on Poverty,” according to the firm’s website (“Our History,”
http://www.abtassociates.com/About-Us/Our-History.aspx). Abt
also provided reports forecasting cocaine availability in the Americas for the US Office of National Drug Control Policy in 2002 (
https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/cocaine2002.pdf).

44
Casals & Associates, “Building More Effective and Efficient Government in Mexico,”
http://www.casals.com/2010/03/building-more-effective-and
-efficient-government-in-mexico/.

45
DynCorp, “About Us,”
http://www.dyn-intl.com/about-us/overview.aspx. And
Abt Associates, “Our History.”

46
Evensen Dodge International, “About Us,”
http://www.dodgeglobal.com/our_clients.html.

47 S.
Goldfarb, “U.S. Center at COP-16: U.S. and Mexico Bi-National Cooperation on Climate Change and Development,”
Dipnote
, December 9, 2010,
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/us_center_mexico_cooperation.

48 Kristian Williams, “Life during Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency,” in
Life During Wartime
, 104.

49 Elizabeth
Malkin and Randal Archibold, “A New Leader Pushes a Different Side of Mexico,”
New York Times
, November 27, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/world/americas/mexico-seeks-to-recast-relationship
-with-us.html?_r=1&.

50 The center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) left the Pact for Mexico in the lead-up to the energy reform.

51 Luis Hernández Navarro, “Las mentiras sobre la reforma educative,”
La Jornada
, January 15, 2013, http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2013/01/15/opinion/017a1pol.

52 ProMéxico,
México: La puerta de aceso al mundo
, October 2012, http://www.promexico.gob.mx/es/mx/boletin-promexico-comparte.

53 Anthony Wayne, “Ambassador Wayne’s Remarks to the U.S. Mexico Chamber of Commerce Breakfast attended by CODEL Sessions, Cuellar, McCaul, and Polis,” December 1, 2012, http://mexico.usembassy.gov/eng/ebio_ambassador/texts/ambassador-waynes-remarks-to-the-us-mexico-chamber-of-commerce-breakfast-attended-by-codel-sessions-cuellar-
mccaul-and-polis.html.

54 International Monetary Fund, “IMF Renews $73 Billion Credit Line for Mexico,” December 11, 2012, www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2012/car121112a.htm.

55 International Monetary Fund, “Transcript of a IMF Western Hemisphere Department Press Briefing,” April 19, 2013, http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2013/tr041913.htm.

56 Ben Bain and Natacha Cattan, “Mexico Credit Rating Upgraded by Fitch to BBB+; Peso Rallies,”
Bloomberg News
, May 8, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-08/mexico-credit-rating-upgraded-by-fitch-to-bbb
-currency-rallies.html.

57 Luis Videgaray, “Palabras del Secretario de hacienda y crédito pùblico, Dr. Luis Videgaray Caso, en la presentación de la iniciativa de reforma financiera,” May 8, 2013, http://www.shcp.gob.mx/SALAPRENSA/doc_discurso_funcionarios/secretarioSHCP/2013/lvc_reforma_financiera_08052013.pdf.

58 Manuel
Sánchez González, “Economía Mexicana: Una mirada de largo plazo,” Banco de México, March 8, 2012,
http://www.banxico.org.mx/publicaciones-y-discursos/discursos-y-presentaciones/presentaciones
/%7B694E563B-9721-B4A2-3023-D914148CCC91%7D.pdf,
24.

59 Ibid.,
22.

60 Amy Guthrie, “Mexico Proposes Financial Reform in Effort to Boost Lending,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 8, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130508-713157.html.

61 Reyes Retana, Roberto Arena, et al, “Mexico’s Large-scale Financial Reform: Greater Availability of Credit, Lower Costs and Certainty of Legal Remedies,”
Lexology
, May 22, 2013, 2013, http://www.lexology.com/library/detail
.aspx?g=3d7aaeaa-792e-4b8c-8d02-e1a03b0c32d7.

62 Dawn Paley, “Til Debt Do Us Part,” CIP Americas Program, August 8, 2013, http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/10229.

63 Ejidos are communally owned lands used for agriculture. Community members farm specific parcels, with some sections of the ejido designated specifically to be farmed communally.

64 Amy Guthrie, “Mexico Proposes Financial Reform.”

65 International Monetary Fund, “Transcript of a Press Briefing by G24 Ministers,” October 10, 2013, https://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2013/tr101113.htm.

66 Daniel Hernández, “Saving Mexico? Selling Mexico? Slaying Mexico?,”
Vice
(February 21, 2014), http://www.vice.com/read/saving-mexico-selling
-mexico-slaying-mexico.

67 James Taylor and Mike Shannon, “How Mexico Can Rescue Its Brand,” May 9, 2012, http://vianovo.com/news/how-mexico-can-rescue-its-brand.

68 Thomas L. Friedman, “How Mexico Got Back in the Game,”
New York Times
, February 23, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-mexico-got-back-in-the-game.html?_r=0.

69 Enrique Pena Nieto, “U.S., Mexico Should Develop Their Economic Bond,”
Washington Post
, November 23, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/enrique-pena-nieto-us-mexico-should-develop-their-economic-bond/2012/11/23/248b8ec4-3589-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html.

70 Ashley Southall, “Obama to Visit Mexico and Costa Rica in May,”
New York Times
, March 27, 2013, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/obama-to-visit-mexico-and-costa-rica-in-may/.

71 Todd Miller, “Senate Disguises Militarization as Immigration Reform,”
Salon.com
, July 11, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/07/11/the_u_s_mexican_border_is_ground_zero_for_a_domestic_surveillance_state_partner/.

72
As evidenced recently with the implementation of austerity measures in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

73 Maracio Schettino, “El mito de la energía en México,”
Nueva Sociedad
220 (March–April 2009): 146.

74 Flavia
Krause-Jackson and Nacha Cattan, “Mexican Presidential Candidate Seeks Private Investment in Oil Industry,”
Bloomberg
, November 17, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/pena-nieto-pledges-mexican-oil-opening-calderon-found-elusive.html.

75 Diana
Férnandez, “PEMEX Can Be More Competitive,” April 2, 2012, http://eng
.fundsamericas.com/news/business/8845/PEMEX-can-be-more-competitive.

76 Adam
Thompson, “Mexico-US: Let’s Talk Trade,”
Financial Times
, March 28, 2013,
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/03/28/mexico-us
-lets-talk-about-trade/?#axzz2VGI7jPbo.

77 Esther Arzate and Maribel Zavala, “Bienvenido: El Abanico Energético,”
Petroleo y Energia
(December 2013–January 2014):19.

78 Mexico is the largest silver producer in Latin America, and the second largest in the world, and is the third copper producer in Latin America, according to ProMéxico. ProMéxico,
México: La puerta de aceso al mundo
, 2013.

79 Ralph Cuervo-Lorens, “Commentary: A Better Response to Mexico’s New Mining Taxes,”
The Northern Miner
, February 24, 2014, http://www.northernminer
.com/news/commentary-a-better-response-to-mexicos-new-mining-taxes
/1002929894/?ref=rss&ctid=1002929894.

80 The Economist, “Mexico: The Sovereign Take,”
The Economist
(November 2, 2013), http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21588891-new-royalty
-rattles-investors-sovereign-take.

81 Cuervo-Lorens, “Commentary.”

82 V. Espinosa, B. Bain, and N. Cattan, “Mexico Credit Rating Raised After Oil Industry Opened,”
Bloomberg News
, February 5, 2014, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/mexico-rating-raised-to-a3-by-moody-s-after-oil-industry-opened.html.

83 World Bank, “Mexico,” undated, http://data.worldbank.org/country/mexico.

84
Embassy of the United States in Mexico, “U.S. Ambassador Wayne and Attorney General Morales Launch Training Program for Prosecutors and Investigators,” February 7, 2012, http://mexico.usembassy.gov/press-releases/us-ambassador-wayne-and-attorney-general-morales.html.

85 Dawn
Paley, “Legal Battles in Mexico,”
Upside Down World
, 2011,
http://
upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/3353-legal-battles-in-mexico
.

86 Gustavo Castillo, “Evolución de la delincuencia sorprendió al sistema de justicia: Murillo Karam,” http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2014/01/08/evolucion-de-la-delincuencia-sorprendio-al-sistema-de-justicia-murillo
-karam-3326.html.

87 Poiré’s candid comments came during a talk sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, the powerful US organization that publishes
Foreign Affairs
magazine: The Economist, “Shannon O’Neil and Alejandro Poiré: Disrupting the drug war,”
The Economist
(November 7, 2012), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1V54Rw-HNQ.

88 Paley, “Legal Battles in Mexico.”

89 UN Mission to Mexico. “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers,” April, 2011, retrieved October 10, http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G11/129/33/PDF/G1112933.pdf?OpenElement, 12.