| Daily Press Briefing Sean McCormack, Spokesman Washington, DC January 7, 2008 Daily Press Briefing Transcript (Mexico, Colombia) INDEX:
TRANSCRIPT: Excerpts from the Daily Press Briefing of January 7, 2008, pertaining to Western Hemisphere Affairs. full briefing
QUESTION: Sean, this weekend, the Attorney General of Mexico has (inaudible) a report saying that there is information that narcotraffickers are going to kidnap political figures in Mexico and also political candidates. My question is, since you say months ago that Mexico is working fine against drug traffic and the situation in Mexico is becoming worse and worse, something like Colombia a few years ago, what's the real assessment of the State Department on the fight on drugs in Mexico with all this bad news and you guys are saying everything is fine? MR. MCCORMACK: I haven't always said everything was fine. I -- QUESTION: (Inaudible.) MR. MCCORMACK: Well, I think that -- I don't remember exactly the exchange, but what I imagine it would have been was that we were working very well with the Mexican Government on this issue. Now, I will leave it to the Government of Mexico to describe the state of affairs within their own country. It is a quite serious problem, as they had identified and President Calderon had identified. He took it very seriously. It's not something that was -- that happened overnight. This is something that had been building up over time. So he takes it quite seriously in addressing it. We take it quite seriously in addressing it. We will do what we can within the confines of our discussions and agreements with the Government of Mexico to assist them. But fundamentally, you should ask the Government of Mexico for their assessment of the state of affairs within Mexico.
QUESTION: U.S. Embassy in Bogota put out a Warden message over the weekend, I think, warning about unspecified threats against commercial aircraft in Colombia. Do you have any information about that? MR. MCCORMACK: I don't. Haven't seen it. We'll see if we can get you something.
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