The U.S., Mexico, and the Drug War Scam http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-ross-us-mexico-and-drug-war-scam.html

On the security side, the U.S. seeks total control of Mexico's security apparatus. With the creation of NORCOM (the North Command) designed to protect the U.S. landmass from terrorist attack, Mexico is designated North America's southern security perimeter and U.S. military aircraft now have carte blanche to penetrate Mexican airspace.

Moreover, the North American Security and Prosperity Agreement (ASPAN in its Mexican initials) seeks to integrate the security apparatuses of the three NAFTA nations under Washington's command. Now the Merida Initiative signed by Bush II and Calderon in early 2007 allows for the emplacement of armed U.S. security agents -- the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, and ICE -- on Mexican soil and contractors like the former Blackwater cannot be far behind.

Wars are fought for juicy government contracts and $1.3 billion in Merida moneys are going directly to U.S. defense contractors -- forget about the Mexican middleman.On the energy side (the "prosperity" euphemized in the ASPAN), the designated target is, of course, the privatization of PEMEX, Mexico's nationalized oil industry, with a particular eye out for risk contracts on deep sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico utilizing technology only the EXXONs of this world possess.

comment-also see...The never-ending drug war http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/43656  U.S. Aid from Foreign Military Financing, Entire Region, 2006-2011 http://justf.org/Program?program=Foreign_Military_Financing   The U.S./Bolivia Drug Show http://democracyctr.org/blog/2010/03/usbolivia-drug-show.html  carlos_da_mackeral: Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?by Mike Whitney http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18877  "Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6635