{"id":479987,"date":"2010-03-27T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2010-03-27T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T20:20:44","slug":"wh-drug-czar-u-s-shares-the-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/479987","title":{"rendered":"WH Drug Czar: U.S. Shares the Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House Drug Czar Chief Gil Kerlikowske said on Saturday that the U.S. has a responsibility to bear when it comes to the ongoing drug war in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/americasnewshq\">Fox News<\/a>, Kerlikowske admitted that the U.S. is \u201ca large consumer nation\u201d of drugs and that the Obama Administration is working hard to combat the problem and\u00a0 \u201creduce the amount of drugs that we consume.\u201d\u202a<\/p>\n<p>Kerlikowske\u2019s comments come as violence in Mexico has continued to escalate in recent days, notably in the border city of Juarez.\u00a0 He says the U.S. is working to seize money that fuels Mexican drug cartels and to \u201dstop the flow of guns\u201d between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led a high level White House delegation to Mexico. Secretary Clinton told the Mexican government the two countries will work \u201ctogether to solve the problems posed by the criminal cartels that stock the streets on your cities and ours.\u201d\u202a<\/p>\n<p>Following up on a promise to support Mexico, the United States has provided the Mexican government with a gun tracking system called \u201cE-Trace\u201d that will allow Mexican authorities to trace firearms from their point of sale, including within the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Drug Czar Chief Gil Kerlikowske said on Saturday that the U.S. has a responsibility to bear when it comes to the ongoing drug war in Mexico. Speaking on Fox News, Kerlikowske admitted that the U.S. is \u201ca large consumer nation\u201d of drugs and that the Obama Administration is working hard to combat the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}