Cocaine their problem, too, Mexicans discover

Miami Herald ^ | June 29, 2002 | KEVIN G. HALL

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[Excerpt] U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Asa Hutchinson corroborates the theory that tighter border enforcement is responsible. Cocaine purity fell 9 percent last year in the United States, reflecting tight supply, Hutchinson said in an interview. U.S. coke dealers are ''diluting it to make it go further,'' he said.

At a group therapy session for parents of drug addicts outside Mexico City, Pedro Bernal Garcia rues the consequences. The working class father says he thought Mexico was only a transit country for Colombian cocaine bound for the United States.

''We are just so sad because we don't want to accept that our kids have fallen into drugs,'' said Bernal, whose two sons, aged 27 and 24, are imprisoned for stealing to feed their cocaine habits.

As other parents nod, he adds something many U.S. families already know: ``This is a global problem.''

Mexico now has at least 2.5 million drug users and at least half a million of them are hard-core addicts, said Guido Belsasso, who heads Mexico's anti-addiction effort, at a meeting of the National Addictions Advisory Board. Mexico's population is about 100 million.

According to Health Ministry studies, more than 5 percent of Mexicans aged 12 to 65 have tried illicit drugs, far below the 39 percent rate for Americans reported by U.S. drug abuse agencies. But it's a troubling number for a conservative country more accustomed to alcoholism than drug abuse. [End Excerpt]

[Bad~Rodeo]

U.S. coke dealers are ''diluting it to make it go further

They must be Dems...L~

[jordan8]

Cocaine purity fell 9 percent last year in the United States, reflecting tight supply
Despair not, all ye crackheads. As soon as Mexican trucks start rolling into the U.S. it'll be cheap as dirt and pure as the "driven snow". Thanks NAFTA, thanks loyal American politicians (hehehe), thanks GWB!

[FITZ]

The working class father says he thought Mexico was only a transit country for Colombian cocaine bound for the United States. ''We are just so sad because we don't want to accept that our kids have fallen into drugs,'' said Bernal, whose two sons, aged 27 and 24, are imprisoned for stealing to feed their cocaine habits.

How sad. Bernal thought his sons would be content only to deliver the drugs but not to try them. They will reap what they have sown.

[FITZ]

For good information on what we are trying to have an open border with: Contains much good information about the corruption in the Mexican government all the way from local police up to President Fox.

DEATH STALKS THE BORDER

http://www.elpasotimes.com/bor derdeath/

[norton]

"The working class father says he thought Mexico was only a transit country for Colombian cocaine bound for the United States."

Nice to have such good neighbors.

Wonder how soon someone will suggest giving them visas to come here for treatment?

[Free the USA]

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