Much of the nearly $2 billion in US aid and training provided to Mexico under the Merida Initiative has flowed to the quasi-military federal police force.
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The report focuses on “enforced disappearances” of civilians at the hands of both Mexico's naval infantry and the militarized federal police — forces that have won favor and hefty funds from Washington during the six-year campaign against the gangsters.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/130222/mexico-drug-war-disappearances-human-rights-watch-report
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday ordered all U.S. Special Operations forces to leave a strategically important province in two weeks, alleging that they had been involved in the torture and murder of “innocent people.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/taliban-target-afghan-intelligence-agency-in-three-suicide-attacks/2013/02/24/559313fa-7e65-11e2-9073-e9dda4ac6a66_story.html
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The report focuses on “enforced disappearances” of civilians at the hands of both Mexico's naval infantry and the militarized federal police — forces that have won favor and hefty funds from Washington during the six-year campaign against the gangsters.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/130222/mexico-drug-war-disappearances-human-rights-watch-report
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday ordered all U.S. Special Operations forces to leave a strategically important province in two weeks, alleging that they had been involved in the torture and murder of “innocent people.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/taliban-target-afghan-intelligence-agency-in-three-suicide-attacks/2013/02/24/559313fa-7e65-11e2-9073-e9dda4ac6a66_story.html