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US Training of Mexican Troops Could be Contributing Factor in Mexicos Soaring Murder Rate
Monday, February 18, 2013 20:14
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US Training of Mexican Troops Could be Contributing Factor in Mexico’s Soaring Murder Rate
Posted by Charleston Voice
US Training of Mexican Troops Has Escalated in Step With Mexico’s Murder Rate
Posted by Bill Conroy – February 17, 2013 at 10:53 pm Boots-On-The-Ground Instruction Carried Out by US Military in Mexico City, Campeche and Chiapas — Home of the Zapatistas
US training of Mexican military forces spiked in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, coinciding with a sharp rise in drug-war homicides in Mexico, an analysis of records made public under the Foreign Assistance Act show.
The training in those two years, funded by the US Department of Defense, and to a lesser extent by the US Department of State, covered a wide range of military skill sets and involved hundreds of training programs offered in the US to Mexican forces as well as dozens (at least 60) provided inside Mexico.
For example, in Mexico City during that two-year period, the US military provided to Mexican security forces training in, among other tactics, “asymmetrical conflict,” “anti-terrorism,” and “open-source intelligence” gathering. US military training also was provided in other parts of Mexico, including the state of Campeche, where infantry, marksmanship and intelligence programs were offered to Mexican troops; and in Chiapas, in fiscal 2011, infantry training was provided to Mexican Marines over two-week periods in April and September. Read more> http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2013/02/us-training-of-mexican-troops-could-be.html
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