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Mexico is so influential through Central America right down to Pan-
ama, the high profile I've been given here will set me in good stead in
the other countries. We will receive as much support in them as here,
if not more.
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Sitting here in the compound after a good day's run, and coming from
a relatively law-abiding country such as Australia, it's hard for me to get
my head around the fact that Mexico is in the grip of a drug war. Rival
cartels, keen to control the growing of drugs in their region and their
supply to the United States, fight to the death against each other. They
are also at war with government forces. These cartels supply most of
the illicit drugs that find their way into the United States, so the gang-
sters here are unbelievably powerful and wealthy. It's thought that the
profits from drugs in the United States are as high as $US48 billion.
The blokes in my escort are taking their work very seriously.
Today, when I stopped at a public loo, they surrounded the block and
It's
not o
ften
I have
the
polic
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my ta
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