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Legislators
Blast
Mexico
Certification:
Resolutions
to
Overturn
Introduced
in
Both
Houses
3/6/98
In what is shaping up as a replay of a battle fought one year ago, legislators
in both the House and the Senate have introduced resolutions aimed at overturning
the Clinton administration's certification of Mexico as a cooperative partner
in the Drug War. Last year's attempt to overturn certification in the House
swept through committee with a vote of 27-5, and was stopped only after
the President secured new promises of Mexican cooperation. The Washington
Post reports that administration officials view the prospect of a reversal
this year as "extremely unlikely" as they are confident that
there are insufficient votes in the Senate to overturn a presidential veto,
if it comes to that.
But that hasn't stopped legislators from both sides of the aisle from
trying. On Tuesday (3/3), Senators Paul Coverdell (R-GA) and Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA) introduced that body's resolution. Coverdell explained his opposition
by stating that "by almost any objective standard, Mexico has clearly
failed to satisfy the legal criteria required for certification."
Feinstein cited "gaping holes" in Mexico's Drug War efforts,
including "endemic corruption."
All of this complicates matters for President Clinton, who is scheduled
to attend a Western Hemispheric Summit next month. On the agenda will be
increasing levels of hemispheric cooperation in the prosecution of the
drug war. Many Latin American leaders have complained in recent years about
the certification process, pointing out that there is much hypocrisy inherent
in the largest drug consumer in the world passing unilateral judgment on
countries who are bearing much of the brunt of America's drug war.
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Issue #32, 3/6/98
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