8月，墨西哥海军陆战队在美国帮助下采取墨西哥有史以来最大的毒品缉查行动，在一个星期的时间内查获并销毁了96吨甲基安非他命。

这批甲基安非他命相当于2016年美国在西南边境截获的同类毒品数量的四倍以上。

美国国务院国际毒品与执法事务局（Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs）的理查·格伦（Rich Glenn）谈到，墨西哥西北各州的国际毒品走私组织势力很大。他说，截获这批毒品使锡纳罗亚贩毒集团（Sinaloa Cartel）受到沉重打击。

美国为墨西哥当局提供训练和人员保护设备，包括手套、连衫裤工作服和面罩等。墨西哥有关当局销毁了96吨甲基安非他命和14吨制造毒品的化学物质。

梅里達倡議（Mérida Initiative）

墨西哥生产的非法毒品往往被运往美国各地，导致墨西哥的犯罪和暴力，以及美国毒品泛滥。为了抗击毒品势力，墨西哥和美国共同实施梅里达协议。

美国已为梅里达倡议提供了28亿美元，帮助墨西哥政府训练警务人员，提高检察人员追查犯罪集团的能力，提高监狱的安全保障标准，并改善边界设施。
在梅里达倡议的支持下，墨西哥：

• 在2015至2017年截获并销毁了300个隐秘的毒品实验室。

• 与美国执法和出入境管理人员交换信息，查找已知或嫌疑罪犯、黑帮成员和恐怖主义分子。

• 为警察、监狱和刑侦机构采取全国认证和登记标准。

Together, U.S. and Mexico take down drug traffickers

In one of the largest drug busts in Mexico’s history, Mexican marines, with U.S. assistance, seized and destroyed 96 tons of methamphetamine over the course of a single week in August.

That’s more than four times the amount of methamphetamine the U.S. intercepted on its southwest border in all of 2016.

“These seizures represent a significant blow to the Sinaloa Cartel,” said Rich Glenn of the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, referring to the powerful, international drug-trafficking organization in Mexico’s northwestern states.

The U.S. provided training and personal protective equipment, including gloves, coveralls and masks, to the Mexican authorities who destroyed the 96 tons of methamphetamine and 14 tons of drug-making chemicals as well.

Mérida Initiative

Illegal drugs produced in Mexico are often headed for American communities, creating crime and violence in Mexico and an epidemic of drug use in the United States. To confront this challenge, Mexico and the United States work together under a program called the Mérida Initiative.

The U.S. has delivered $2.8 billion to the Mérida Initiative to help the Mexican government train police officers, build the skills of prosecutors to take on organized crime, raise standards of safety and security in prisons, and improve border facilities.

With Mérida Initiative support, Mexico:

• Seized and dismantled 300 hidden drug laboratories between 2015 and 2017.

• Exchanges information daily with U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials to identify known or suspected criminals, gang members and terrorists.

• Has adopted national certification and accreditation standards for police, prisons and forensics institutions.