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Did you know that the U.S. has been operating surveillance drones in Mexico, providing air support for the Mexican military, tracking the movements of Mexican citizens, sharing state-of-the-art spy technology with Mexican officials, and sending CIA agents to help Mexico train drug informants? Did you know the DEA has more employees stationed in Mexico than any of its other foreign posts? That Mexican nationals trained and bankrolled by the CIA raid Mexican drug cartels? Or that the CIA runs high-tech “fusion centers” in Mexico City, Monterrey and elsewhere?“For the past seven years, Mexico and the United States have put aside their tension-filled history on security matters to forge an unparalleled alliance against Mexico’s drug cartels, one based on sharing sensitive intelligence, U.S. training and joint operational planning,” Dana Priest reports in the Washington Post. “But now, much of that hard-earned cooperation may be in jeopardy.” Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s new leader, reportedly dislikes the status quo, and was shocked, on taking office this December, at the degree of United States involvement in his country.via Mexico Is Ready to End Failed Drug-War Policies—Why Isn’t the U.S.? – Conor Friedersdorf – The...

Mexico is ending its unprecedented open relationship with U.S. security agencies that developed in recent years to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.All contact for U.S. law enforcement will now go through “a single window,” the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy, said Sergio Alcocer, deputy foreign secretary for North American affairs.Alcocer confirmed the change to The Associated Press on Monday, three days before U.S. President Barack Obama visits for his first bilateral meeting with his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office Dec. 1.via Mexico ends open access for US security agencies in fight against cartels | Fox...