Seventy percent of all illegal drugs entering the United States. including threequarters of all the cocaine and 80 percent of all foreigngrown marijuana. are smuggled through Mexico. Ninety percent of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine are smuggled into the United States from Mexico. We need cooperation from Mexico in many aspects of counternarcotcs: from border control. to cracking down on money laundering. to combating corruption. There has been some progress In these areas. but not nearly enough. and much more is needed. Perhaps the most basic area in which we need cooperation is in cracking down on the drug lords who run the smuggling rings.
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