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Guest host: Steve Roberts
The Mexican government has deployed close to thirty thousand troops to fight increasingly violent drug cartels. The nation's top drug enforcement officer was assassinated earlier this month, and many say the killing signals a new and more dangerous phase in that country' battle against drug traffickers. An update on Mexico's drug wars.
Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup, director of the Mexico Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Joy Olson, Executive Director of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Malcolm Beith, Mexico editor, The News
Roberta Jacobson, Deputy Assistant Secretary Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
The former Republican congressman explains his belief that the conservative movement has abandoned its principles and transformed from the best defender of the Constitution to its most threatening opponent.
Mickey Edwards, lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School; former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma (1977-1993)
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