TROLLED UNCLA S SIFTED INFO LOG-00 DNI-00 FARE-00 LAB-01 DCP-00 D-00 NCTC-00 G-00 EEB-00 DODE-00 VCI-00 L-00 NSAE-00 DOHS-00 CBP-00 NFAT-00 AID-00 DOTE-00 DIAS-00 CAC-00 ISN-00 FMPC-00 R-00 SAS-00 AMAD-00 CIAE-00 PERC-00 -DS-00 H-00 TEDE-00 ARMY-00 MOFM-00 OCS-00 NIMA-00 SP-00 IRM-00 SCRS-00 DSCC-00 FA-00 SWCI-00 ------------------387A2E 1-A-S Aik-R-T MEXICO 006043 -N T UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY APPEALS REVIEW PANEL APPEAL ACTION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELEASED REASON S B1 1 4 B 1 4 D DATE CASE ID 29 JUN 2011 200804526 aENS-I-T-I-VE S ZRD-I-S STATE FOR WHA MEX INL-00 OIGO-00 I0-00 VCIE-00 ISNE-00 SS-00 DRL-00 0522362 38 R 0521132 DEC 07 FM AMEMBASSY MEXICO TO ALL US CONSULATES IN MEXICO COLLECTIVE SECSTATE WASHDC 9792 INFO WESTERN HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS DIPL POSTS USINT HAVANA DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC CDR USNORTHCOM CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL NSC WASHDC G-E COME-00 DHSE-00 INR-00MOP-00 GIWI-00 SSO-00 PRM-00 001W INR INL E O 12958 DECL 12 05 2017_ TAGS PGOV PREL ECON MX SUBJECT DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE HAS CORDIAL MEETINGS' SENIOR MEXICAN SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS Classified By Political Minister Counselor Charles V Barclay Reason 1 4 b d Summary On October 30 Deputy Secretary Negroponte 1 Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon and party met heads of Mexico s Secretariats of Gobernacion Interior and Public Security as well as with Mexico s Attorney General All three GOM officials outlined steps the Calderon administration is taking to improve law enforcement efforts in Mexico and more effectively confront Mexico s narcotics They expressed appreciation of the USG s cartels commitment to strengthen law enforcement cooperation through the Merida Initiative Ambassador Negroponte told his law enforcement interlocutors that president Bush was personally UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE CLASSIFIED BY DEPT OF STATE L HEDGBETH DAS A GIS REVIEW AUTHORITY ADOLPH H EISNER CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL REASON 1 403 1 4 D DECLASSIFY AFTER 5 DEC 2017 DATE CASE ID OS NOV 2009 200804526 DECONTROLLED UN CLASSIFIED Y DECONTROLLED UN committed to boosting our joint efforts against narcotics 'trafficking and that his administration would work to secure congressional support for the initiative in coming weeks End Summary ' Interior Secretary Staff Discuss New Intel Center Ambassador Negroponte s first meeting was with 2 Secretary of Government Ramirez Acuna CISEN Director Guillermo Valdes Castellanos and Deputy Secretary of Population Migration and Religious Issues Florencio Salazar Ramserz A cuna and h s- officials exp ressed their Adame desire to advance law enforcement cooperation with the U S and stressed the importance of the Merida Initiative 131 B Secretary for Public Security Outlines Proposed Police Reforms 4 SP In an follow-on meeting with Genaro Garcia Luna Secretary for Public Security Deputy Secretary Negroponte asked for details on what the GOM was doing in police reform and other aspects of law enforcements to help him fill in the blanks8 in preparation for future questioning regarding the Merida Initiative Garcia Luna provided an extensive summary of steps already being undertaken by his secretariat DECONTROLLED UNCLAS SIFTED DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED to improve law enforcement-in-Mexico and outlined the Ambassador Negroponte challenges facing police in Mexico coordination the need for good among police emphasized and noted our commitment to helping Mexico meet elements its current security challenges S Garcia Luna began by outlining SSP s drive to improve'federal poking starting with the addition of 1 Q 000 - new federal police it intends to add to the current 17 000 _ SSP wants -to build the force to an eventual 35 000 It is also upgrading federal prisons he said and police Tans to build a super maximum security8 prison that will allow it to isolate cartel members from their support Finally SSP is engaging civil society to networks establish performance benchmarks and create a social State consultative councils aszs8 for law enforcement composed of business NGQs and civic 'leaders will help make S 6 The Public Security Secretary said that ambitious reform proposals awaiting Congressional action will providethe means for professionalizing-all 350 000 federal state The reforms will help his and local police forces secretariat establish standard methods processes and in every jurisdiction l As an interim measure - he said SSP was SBU olygraphing federal forces underits control ' The secretariat is building the means to test 100 000 police If year and will eventually test all police in Mexico approved this massive restructuring will broaden the authority of the federal police to investigate aggressivel'y to pioactively'prevent crime harmonize police procedures and standards and impose binding ethical standards on police officers 7 SB1p The Deputy Secretary noted the importance of 8 harmonizing policing across Mexico and asked about efforts Calderon s push promote better coordination among forces sa'3 d' Garcia Luna demonstrated his commitment to O'r re O rm break the-law enforcement mold in Mexico whereby local state police elements have traditionally worked in an'd'federal 1 -1 _a of each other maintaining distant often isolation The reforms would force antagonistic relations at best police to work nationally in a coordinated manner he said U Garcia Luna said that reforms that do not require changes in law are already being implemented including the DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED A DECONTROLLED UN CLASSIFIED establ- shmerit of Plataforma - Mexico 8- 'the billion-dollar scheme for 'establisl ing interconnections between all police and prosecutors _ 4The system would replace existing obsolete HF ViJF radio links and allow SSP_to -analyze criminal trendsin'real time - Plataforma Mexico already reaches every exican'state %said Garc ia Luna and by January-would begin e % down to the municipalities eventually reaching 2-0 to 00- Su To wrap up the meeting the Deputy Secretary 10_ asked-Garcia Luna for his take on the key security challenges In response Garcia Luna described an illegal facing Mex ico narcotics trade in great flux with long-term 'regional monopolies breaking down at a time when technologies and' The Calderon tactics were becoming more lethal and brutal the cartels earlier this year administration s press against SSP s key challenges engendered further violence he said are _to re-populate8 the entire police force across the country breaking the grip cartels hold on local police in articular restore public respect far law enforcement in exico and train and equip police forces to challenge the technological 'edge cartels have long maintained here Garcia Luna noted that the support provided through 'the Merida Initiative would help provide the police the technological advantage now enjoyed by the well-funded crnal organizations they face Attorney General Lauds Improved Law Enforcement Relationship and Outlines Its Results The Deputy Secretary s final law enforcement S 11 on October 30 was with Mexico s Attorney General meetin Eduardo Medina Mora - Media Mora wa-s accompanied by Noe Ramirez Deputy Attorney General for Organized Crime Oscar Rocha Special Advisor Juan Sanchez Zarza chief of analysis at the National Organized Crime Information and Analysis Center CENAPI and Enrique Rojo chief advisor to the Foreign Relations Secretariat s North America Affairs head Carlos Rico Medina Mora began by noting that he had just 12 S U returned from the Mexican Senate where he had update d Senators on the Zhenli case the Chinese-Mexican now'' U custody for trafficking in- methamphetamine precursor Not surprisingly he said the'senators chemicals expressed great interest in the Merida Initiative PRI n particular pressed him to explain why- the legislators GOM had not consulted them before announcing the initiative The A' exp'ected PRD interlocutors were'' also critical initiative offers them auseful polit cal axe to grind DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED The attorney general then expressed his gratitude ZU 13 Shannon and Ambassador Garza for their help in putting to A S the Merida Initiative together and offered his hope that the Ambassador U S Congress would approve the initiative soon Negroponte replied that the U S will make a serious effort He expected no in congress to win support for he proposal serious resistance but noted that Congress would not likely act until February or March of next year Medina Mora opined that in his seven years 14 - SIXU' government service the current USG-GOM law enforcement' It was producing results relationship was now at its best DEA statistics showed that cocaine prices are up as he said dell and purity is down testimony to better enforcement on An outstanding recent success was both sides of the border scored in the Zhenli arrest and the confiscation of more The PGR had strong evidence than 207 million USD in cash against Zhenli and was working with DOJ providing witnesses and'evdence The GOM was preparing'a formal -request far his extradition He said that the statue of limitations would endure for decades on the charges Zhenli faces in Mexico The Attorney' General also outlined recent GOM PGR S$'U 15 it tiatives'and successes such as' the new ban on imports of metli'amphetamine precursor chemicals and a recent record-setting cocaine seizure of 11 5 metric tons in one Embassy -note this amount was to be surpassed container latter the same day by the seizure of 23 5 metric tons -a world record DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED Visit Mexico ICity 's Classified Web Site at http www state sgov gov p wha mexicocity and the North American Partnership Blog at http www intelink gov communities state nap GARZA NNNN DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu