Mexico is another country plunged into turmoil by the unvarnished views of American diplomats made available by WikiLeaks. According to Mexico’s Coordinator of the Dialogue for the Reconstruction of Mexico, Manuel Camacho Solís, writing for El Universal, ‘If someone had been dedicated to tracking files that are the most devastating to Mexico in the State Department archives, he would have been hard pressed to find a more damaging set.’
For Mexico’s El Universal, Manuel Camacho Solís writes in part:
The publication of internal State Department documents about Mexico is equivalent to an external shock to the domestic policies of our nation. The information will further complicate the end of this administration’s term in office and increase tensions within the government. The damage control that the government has attempted isn’t nearly enough to mitigate the harm that has been done. The government should seriously consider remedial measures to protect state institutions and offer apologies to those who were offended.
[Editor’s Note: In some of the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, American diplomats paint a scathing picture of the Mexican Army, branding it unfit to combat drug traffickers.]
It does little good to argue that President Felipe Calderon is truly committed to the battle against drugs, if all that comes along with that commitment demonstrates how his government is permeated by incompetence and corruption. The information shows Felipe Calderon as a leader who puts no limits on U.S. involvement, fails to coordinate security in his areas of responsibility and is absent from key decisions that can only devolve to him. The impression remains that the central decisions regarding domestic security are being taken by parts of the U.S. government. And that after four years, each sector of government that has been organized according to his wishes, is working on its own without any coordination among the Defense Department, the Navy, the public security services, the Center of Investigation and National Security, and the General Attorney’s Office, not to mention other institutions of government and the complex federal mosaic.
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