Mexico and the United States in the fight against drug trafficking

This book is the result of three years of research aimed at exposing how the perceptions of Mexico and the United States changed, at a time when their security was being threatened by drug traffickers, to collaborate openly before the public opinion of the two countries and with a specific collaboration scheme known as the Merida Initiative. The idea of co-responsibility and that it was a shared problem to fight drug traffickers meant that the bitter experiences of the past between the two countries were left behind, allowing them to establish a bilateral closeness to confront drug traffickers in both territories. This work also reflects that the commitments, the form of bilateral support and work was a product of past experience, but also of unprecedented political will.