Mexico's Cleaning House

Hazel Inglis/ 12/01/08 / global crime / 5:08pm

Mexico has been trying to clean up the organized crime that has been going on in their country and across their borders and is especially focus on the drug trafficking. Their government is determined to identify those who “are involved in criminal activities and have abandoned the principles and values of public services”, says Medina. The Mexican government has recently arrested Noe Ramirez, who was high ranking law enforcement, for allegedly sharing police information with violent drug smugglers. He was taking $450,000 from a member of the Pacific cartel and they offered to pay him a similar amount each month for alerting the drug gangs of planned police operations. In 2006, Ramirez was named assistant attorney general of organized crime when Calderon took office and resigned in July at the request of Medina who is the Attorney General but there were no corruption allegations against him at that time.

The arrest of Ramirez shows the United States, the Mexican government and people that they are serious about getting to the bottom of the corruption that is going on within their country. The United States has been working closely with Mexican counterparts, sharing information, and the US Congress has promised $400 million in aid for Mexico’s efforts to clean up corruption. This arrest is likely to reinforce the mistrust of the Mexican police by the Mexican people who have long believed that the police were involved in drug trafficking at all levels.

I am glad to see that the Mexican government is taking action against the corruption within their government. I believe that all governments have some corruption within them and the Mexican government has been getting away with it for a long time. I do not know where the United States is going to find the $400 million that they have promised the Mexicans, maybe we will borrow the money from the Chinese.

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