What the new U.S.-Mexico security framework means for transborder drug policy
On Oct. 8, 2021, top U.S. and Mexican officials agreed on a new security program, called the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities. In a press conference after the high-level meeting, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced the end of the Mérida Initiative — a $3 billion anti-drug partnership in which the U.S. helped finance Mexico’s drug wars since 2008. With “public health” among its core tenets, the new agreement shifts from previous to
