Joaquin Guzmán 's prosecution will inadvertently highlight the government's failure to stop the flow of narcotics and the related bloodshed.
The frustration with current drug policy — with its high costs, death tolls in the tens of thousands across the Americas and persistent heavy flow of narcotics — is very real.
The problem is that even when Mexico has made major seizures in recent years, the northward flow of narcotics to Americans hasn't stopped.
Using its civil authority, the DEA stopped the flow of narcotics from some company warehouses, and U.S. attorneys levied fines totaling more than $286 million.
Trying to stop the flow of narcotics is akin to the legendary Sisyphus futilely pushing a boulder uphill, says Fernando Carrera, Guatemala's foreign minister.
However, allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to handle drug investigations at our borders, where it already has a significant presence, would greatly strengthen our efforts to stop the flow of narcotics that fuels the drug violence both here and in Mexico.
Like the other former Soviet republics on the drug route dubbed the New Silk Road, Tajikistan lacks the resources to combat the flow of narcotics from neighboring Afghanistan en route to Russia and Western Europe.
The flow of narcotics across the border never diminished significantly, and, as cartels like Sinaloa and the Zetas vanquished smaller competitors, they consolidated territorial control, growing more powerful and more grotesque in the process.
The plan is skewed toward using military force to shut down the drug trade in Colombia, an approach that could entangle American troops in that nation's protracted civil war while doing little to stem the flow of narcotics north.
Mr. Putin seems willing to undertake a significant collaboration with the Bush administration on everything from controlling the flow of narcotics to taking stronger measures to undermine the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan.
