NAFTA Debate Raises International Criminal Cooperation Issues

As the NAFTA ratification debate begins to reach a denouement, focus has been directed towards the sufficiency of international criminal cooperation and its future should NAFTA become a reality. In particular, questions concerning illicit drug trafficking and money laundering have been added to issues of the sufficiency of environment and labor enforcement provisions. Both the opponents and the advocates of NAFTA are exaggerating the impacts of NAFTA on enforcement…[more]