Obama is looking to send a strong signal that he is committed to stopping the cross border drug violence, witch Obama will announce on Thursday that he is pressing the Senate to the stop of the flow of gun and to drugs. Obama, had his first trip to Latin America as president. He landed in Mexico City on Thursday afternoon. He Spoke about trade related dispute between the two countries over Mexican trucks can travel American roads, but the most important issue is drug violence.Obama is looking to strengthen the efforts of Mexico President Felipe Calderón, who has made fighting drugs a importance of his domestic policy.
The Law for gun violance went into effect in 1998 after two dozen other nations agreed to it, are looking to crack down on illegalisum of firearms, also among other things.Obama would announce his backing of the Law after meeting with Calderón. At this time relations with Mexico revolved more around the issue of immigration, where as the drug war has now taken center stage.
The drug violence is so high here, that in December a report warned that Mexico could be on the verge of becoming a failed state. Calderón dismissed that assumption in an interview with the ABC News program “Nightline” on Wednesday. He also put some of the blame for Mexico’s problem on gun sales in the United States and demand for drugs there. The Latin America trip, which will include a visit to Trinidad and Tobago, may not be as high profile. The president has made some repairing relations with world leaders, and the visits to other states and countries is made to give him a chance to do right in a region with which he is less familiar.
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Reading this reminded me of toronto and all the gun violence i have witnessed. But sometimes what people dont understand is people turn to guns when they are scared or they feel they have no way out from things they may be going through. It is a good thing that obama is trying to do, i only hope it works.
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