Obama and Mexico

President Barack Obama's visit to Mexico on Thursday and Friday offers the hope of a new beginning after the missed opportunity of George W. Bush's presidency. Obams will arrive in Mexico in the middle of a contested election to renew the lower house of the Mexican Congress and to elect the new Governors of Nuevo Leon, Sonora, San Luis Potosi, Colima, Campeche and Queretaro. Obama's presence in Mexico will certainly ignite the natinalistic views and rhetoric of outdated Mexican political parties. At the center of the agenda will be the security issue.
Stopping the flow of money and weapons from the United States into Mexico is critical to dealing with the violent drug cartels creating havoc on the border, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday. Mexican officials believe that 90 percent of the weapons seized there can be traced to the U.S., Ambassador Sarukhan said on CBS's "Face the Nation."