DENNIS WAGNER
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Arizona Republic The Drug Enforcement Administration has asked Mexican authorities to approve new DEA offices in Nogales, Son., and two other border cities as part of the agency's campaign to combat narcotics smuggling.
Steve Robertson, a spokesman at DEA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said the proposal is under consideration by federal officials in Mexico City.
In addition to Nogales, Robertson said, offices are proposed in Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo, two Mexican communities dominated by the violent Gulf Cartel. All three border cities are notorious drug-trafficking centers.
The DEA has 86 offices in 63 countries, with 81 employees in Mexico. Those assigned overseas typically work as liaison officers with law enforcement agents in host nations, exchanging intelligence rather than conducting complete investigations.
Labels: drugs from Mexico, U.S. - Mexico relations
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