The United States has steadily increased its anti-narcotics assistance to Colombia during Mr. Clinton's second term, to $300 million this year from $65 million in 1996.
MEXICO CITY — With a deadly drug war spreading around the country, beleaguered Mexican officials on Friday welcomed $400 million in anti-narcotics assistance in a bill that was given final Congressional approval in Washington on Thursday night.
"This is a costly and untenable hypocrisy, and the time has come for European countries to make their counter-narcotics assistance strictly conditional on the states which receive it abolishing the death penalty for drug offences".
Despite Mr. McCain's lauding of the $400 million in anti-narcotics assistance for Mexico that Congress approved last week, the country remains in the grip of an armed struggle with drug cartels that has thrown large parts of it into lawlessness that has more recently spread to the capital, with the killings of top police commanders.
Yeah thousands of people dancing in one direction might be a bit off, and the repeated surge of hysterically euphoric, whooshing EDM might not give you goosebumps without narcotic assistance, but if you actually want to have fun, it's worth stepping off your pedestal.
My fine embassy team and I have achieved agreements with Belize on narcotics, legal assistance and extradition.
Mobilization for Youth, which encompassed job training, psychological counseling, a narcotics program, legal assistance and other services, became a model for federal antipoverty programs of the 1960s.
Responding to critics who say the West should remain disengaged from Myanmar because of its human rights record, Mr. Lemahieu argued that assistance in narcotics control also amounted to assistance in transition to a democratic government.
Responding to Reprieve, the UNODC's deputy executive director Aldo Lale-Demoz denied that the agency had "a programme of assistance on counter-narcotics law enforcement" with the Saudi government.
They have already learned that in narcotics control, they cannot win outside assistance simply by using promises or threats.
Experts at the Washington Office on Latin America, an organization that advocates for human rights and social justice, said that Pentagon assistance to Mexican counter-narcotics efforts amounted to $78.2 million in 2009 and 2010.
