U.S. and Mexico Agree to Exchange Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Officials

On July 25, 2001, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the U.S. and Mexico would start exchanging prosecutors and law enforcement officials to work in each other’s Attorney General’s offices, a move showing a determination to jump-start international enforcement cooperation. On July 24, 2001, Mr. Ashcroft met his Mexican counterpart, the Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha, and Mexican national security commissioner Adolfo Aguilar Zinser to discuss ways to improve enforcement cooperation. Macedo de la Concha explained that combining forces was the best way the U.S. and Mexico could make significant progress in combating organized drug trafficking…[more]