The “Mérida Initiative” is a multi-billion dollar effort by the United States government to assist Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean in their fight against drug trafficking organizations.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico are hashing out a security arrangement to replace the Merida Initiative that will focus on exchanging information and the root causes of violence, ...

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Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Mack, and Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before this Committee and to discuss Mexico and the Merida Initiative. Mexico, ...

State Department officials announced yesterday at the Eight Annual Conference on Border Security that the anti-cartel Merida Initiative will shift its focus to Northern Mexico, and that the program ...

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Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the Merida Initiative and the new paradigm that it represents for regional security ...

MEXICO CITY, May 7 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he wants the United States to work on a development plan aimed at stemming migration and ditch the Merida ...

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Mexican President Felipe Calderón is locked in a valiant fight against narco-traffickers, proving his commitment by extraditing to U.S. courts and prisons powerful Mexican drug kingpins and ...