convergence

Deville
38 NDIC, National Drug Threat Assessment 2010, Product No. 2010-Q0317-001 (Washington, DC: Department
of Justice, February 2010).
39 Department of State.
40 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized
Crime Threat Assessment, 2010 (Vienna: UNODC, 2010).
41 “Mexico fires thousands of police to combat corruption,” Reuters, August 10, 2010, available at .
42 Rory Caroll, “Mexico’s drugs war: in the city of death,” The Guardian, September 10, 2010, available at .
43 Josh Meyer, “Mexico’s Drug War: Drug Cartels Raise the Stakes on Human Smuggling,” The Los Angeles
Times, March 28, 2009.
44 UNODC.
45 Human Rights Watch, World Report 2011 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2010), available at .
46 Ibid.
47 Anne-Marie O’Connor, “Mexican cartels move into human trafficking,” The Washington Post, July 27,
2011, available at .
48 Ibid.
49 “Affluent Mexicans Flee Violence, Move to United States,” The Dallas Morning News, August 9, 2011, available
at .
50 “U.S. goes after agents who moonlight for Mexican cartels,” Globalpost, July 10, 2011, available at .
51 Randall C. Archibald, “Hired by Customs, but Working for Mexican Cartels,” The New York Times, December
16, 2009, available at .
52 Sevil Omer, “More Will Die: Mexico Drug War Claims U.S. Lives,” MSNBC.com, April 22, 2011, available
at .
53 Ibid.
54 Barry Leibowitz, “Jaime Zapata, U.S. Immigration Agent, Shot Dead in Mexico in Apparent Ambush,”
CBS News, February 16, 2011, available at .
55 Randall C. Archibald, “Drug Wars Push Deeper into Latin America,” The New York Times, March 23, 2011,
available at .
56 Ibid.
57 Michael A. Braun, former chief of operations and intelligence for DEA, testifying before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, February 2, 2012.
58 Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and
Intelligence, July 7, 2011.
59 Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to National Security (Washington,
DC: The White House, July 2011).
60 Ibid.
61 Walter Kemp, “Organized crime: a growing threat to security,” SIPRI.org, February 10, 2010, available at
.
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