Drug Control: U.S.-Mexican Counternarcotics Efforts Face Difficult Challenges

摘要

The United States is concerned that Mexico continues to be a major transit point for illegal drugs entering the United States. Because of this concern, the United States has provided the Mexican government with counternarcotics assistance to support Mexico's efforts to combat drug-trafficking activities. At your request, we are providing an update on the status of counternarcotics activities in Mexico. Specifically, we examined (1) the nature of the drug threat from Mexico; (2) the progress that Mexico has made in improving its counternarcotics efforts; (3) issues related to the provision of U.S. counternarcotics assistance to the Mexican military; and (4) the plans that the U.S. government has to assess the effectiveness of U.S. and Mexican counternarcotics efforts. (A list of related GAO products on drug control issues in Mexico is at the end of this report.)