Ciudad Juarez Killings Focus U.S.-Mexico Meeting on Security

Howard LaFranchi
The Christian Science Monitor
March 23, 2010

A significant chunk of President Obama’s cabinet and top national security advisers – including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano – will be in Mexico Tuesday for discussions focused on Mexico’s spiraling drug-related violence.

The delegation also includes America's top military officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His attendance underscores how dominant national security has become in bilateral relations, some experts say.

“You don’t bring out the big guns like Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen for a delegation like this unless the overriding focus is going to be security, the drug violence, and the perception of the impact these have on US national security,” says Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New York

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