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Ayotzinapa does not represent the failure of bilateral cooperation: US
'The mass murder in Iguala deserves the condemnation of the whole world, but that does not mean that the bilateral cooperation has failed' said Brownfield . (Photo: Archive/EL UNIVERSAL )
The disappearance of the student
teachers of Ayotzinapa does not represent the failure of the cooperation
between the US and Mexico, as part of the Merida Initiative, said US Assistant
Secretary of State for the Bureau of International and Law Enforcement Affairs,
William Brownfield.
"I do not want to
minimize one of the most disgusting and repulsive crimes in the history of human
race, the mass murder in Iguala deserves the condemnation of the whole world
but, that does not mean that the bilateral cooperation has failed" he said
at a conference call.
However, he acknowledged that
although the smuggling of cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico into the
United States has decreased, there is a crisis in the heroin trafficking,
because according to data 100% of the heroin entering the territory, between
4-5% comes from Afghanistan and 95% from American countries, most of them from
Mexico, he said.
An investigation by EL
UNIVERSAL and Esquire Latin America revealed that at least 10 organized crime
groups -five cartels and five local gangs- vie for the "Poppy
Pentagon", that includes five municipalities in Guerrero: Iguala,
Chilpancingo, Acapulco, Zihuatanejo and Coyuca de Catalán, where 42% of the
so-called "red gold" is produced.
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