The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reviewed issues related to the Mérida Initiative implementation and objective, and published its findings in a May 12 report. The Mérida Initiative is a ...

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico are hashing out a security arrangement to replace the Merida Initiative that will focus on exchanging information and the root causes of violence, ...

Under the Mérida Initiative, the U.S. has spent about $3 billion since 2007 assisting security forces with fighting corruption and criminal organizations—like drug cartels—in Mexico. For programs ...

On May 27th, in light of President Obama’s announcement to dispatch 1,200 more National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, I testified at a joint hearing of the House Committee on Homeland ...

In a recent press conference, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) derided the Mérida Initiative – the country’s security cooperation framework with the US – for adopting a ...

The “Mérida Initiative” is a multi-billion dollar effort by the United States government to assist Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean in their fight against drug trafficking organizations.

InSight Crime Co-Director Steven Dudley was invited to testify before US Congress on May 23, in order to provide an overview of US-Mexico security cooperation, with special emphasis on the Merida ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In anticipation of the scheduled debate around the controversial Merida ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with her Mexican ...

On May 27th I testified at a joint hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism and the Committee on Foreign Affairs’ ...