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for Mexico and Central America, Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, June 3, 2008, pp. 1-6. 91. See, for instance, Antonio Aguilera, “La Iniciativa Mérida vendría a incrementar las violaciones a las garantías individuales” (“The Merida Initiative Would Come to Increase Violations of Individual Guarantees”), La Jornada, June 26, 2008; Laura Carlsen, “Hemispheric Conference Against Militarization Says No to Merida Initiative, U.S. Military Bases,” October 17, 2008, americas. irc-online.org/am/5605, accessed December 3, 2008. 92. Vázquez Raña, “‘No vamos a fallar’”; “Pide FCH extender Iniciativa Mérida en todo el continente.” 93. USAID, Central America and Mexico Gang Assessment, pp. 40-41. 94. “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Is Interviewed by Televisa,” Political Transcript Wire, October 24, 2008, Proquest Newspaper Database, www.proquest.com, accessed December 1, 2008. 95. U.S. House of Representative, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcomittee on the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Obligations under the Merida Initiative, 110th Congr., 2nd Sess., February 7, 2008, p. 20. 96. Liana Sun Wyler, International Drug Control Policy, Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, June 23, 2008, p. 3. 97. Ibid., pp. 2-3, 12. 98. Thomas Marks, “A Model Counterinsurgency: Uribe’s Colombia (2002-2006) vs. FARC,” Military Review, March-April 2007, p. 41. 99. Angel Rabasa and Peter Chalk, Colombian Labyrinth: The Synergy of Drugs and Insurgency and Its Implications for Regional Stability, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001, p. 11; “Pentagon Official Testifies Before House Committee on Plan Colombia,” September 21, 2000, www.fas.org/irp/news/2000/09/irp- 000921-colombia.htm, accessed August 28, 2008. 56
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FOREWORD The presence of drugged fi
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