Mexico and Colombia both have a problem. Can it ever be solved?
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia’s main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.
The finance chief of the FARC rebel unit along the Ecuador-Colombia border is the main contact with the Mexican gangs that purchase cocaine from the rebels, said Colombia’s deputy defense minister.
“We are particularly worried about the strengthening connections between Mexican cartels and the FARC,” Jaramillo said. “The Mexican cartels are buying directly from the FARC.”
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