Mexican drugs enter the U.S. and the best way to combat this is to work in conjunction with the Mexican government preventing the shipment and transactions of these harmful drugs into our country.
How much responsibility should the U.S. have in this matter? Jaime J. Zapata, an immigration officer was killed last week while traveling from Mexico City to Monterrey. Zapata served in Laredo, Texas before being attached to the American Embassy. Another agent whose name has not been released was shot and wounded.
Attacks on American officials are rare and this was the first fatal attack on an American officer on duty. Was Zapata in the wrong place at the wrong time or have drug traffickers grown more desperate and willing to kill?
The drug cartel of northern Mexico are growing more violent, setting up false check points to ambush officials. Anyone who gets in the way of the cartel is eliminated, included two American missionaries last month.
For more details on Jaime Zapata’s death and the situation in of drug cartels in the Monterrey area: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/americas/16mexico.html?scp=2&sq=mexico&st=nyt
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