There is a project called the Merida Initiative to control the rampant crime in Mexico. It is costing US taxpayers $1.6 billion.

TheEye casts a sharp gaze towards US affairs, knowing that when the US coughs, the world, as they say, catches a cold. And so TheEye is not pleased to note that on the US / Mexico border a bad situation keeps getting worse:

U.S. anti-kidnap expert kidnapped in Mexico

Someone must have enjoyed typing that headline.

Mexican gunmen have kidnapped a U.S. security consultant who negotiated the release of dozens of kidnap victims in Latin America.

Gunmen abducted Felix Batista outside a restaurant last Wednesday in the relatively safe northern industrial city of Saltillo in Coahuila state, Mexican authorities and his employer, security consultancy ASI Global, said on Monday.

Batista, a Miami-based Cuban American credited with negotiating the release of victims abducted by Colombian rebels, was snatched after he stepped outside the restaurant, answering a call on his cellular phone, Mexican media said.

The U.S. embassy in Mexico City said it was investigating and declined to comment further.
“He may have been targeted by organized crime in an attempt to show their power. Saltillo is not a kidnapping hot spot,” said a source at Coahuila state attorney general’s office.

Denial isn’t only a river in Egypt. It would have got worse under either McCain or the Obamessiah but just get ready for catching that cold.