4 billion of dollars of aid promised in 2007

Protectionist measures caused by the recession in the fight against drug cartels, passing through the Honduras crisis, virus A (H1N1) or illegal immigration, the concern does not missing in the program of the trilateral Summit yesterday between the United States, the Mexico and the Canada, in Guadalajara. The three countries agreed on a common will to combat drug trafficking and the swine flu and restore deposed President Manuel Zelaya to the Honduras. "President Zelaya remains the democratically elected President, and by respect for the people of the Honduras, the democratic and constitutional order must be restored," said Barack Obama, at the end of the meeting.

It is for the American President, counterpart Felipe Calderon, and the head of the Government of Canada, Stephen Harper, to strengthen links between three of the major economies of the world (respectively in the 1st, 11th 13eet rank) somewhat affected by the economic crisis. They posted a community of views about the situation, as US are figures foreshadowing a next recovery. "The recovery is a priority for all of us", they said. They rely on the Pittsburg Summit, end of September, to "provide effective global action on the crisis", including "strengthening the international financial institutions."

Stay litigation arising since the beginning of the crisis by barriers to the free movement of goods and persons guaranteed by the Treaty of the NAFTA. Felipe Calderon spoke at the start of his meeting with Barack Obama Sunday evening the thorny question of the portions of Mexican trucks in the United States, that their competitors in the North of the rio Grande as unsafe. Barack Obama has also signed a text in the spring of restricting this freedom of operation of Mexican carriers, leading Felipe Calderon to establish in retaliation for the customs duties on imports of American products with a value of $ 2.4 billion 100.

The Canada, for its part, considers that certain clauses in the "Buy America" of the US stimulus package could be detrimental to the interests of its enterprises. In this triangle of recriminations, Mexico also held in Ottawa to impose a visa for a month to those of its nationals who go to the Canada.

Military offensive

Another border, that between the United States and the Mexico, were to be discussions tight between Barack Obama and Felipe Calderon. But once is not custom, the subject not focuses on the one million illegal workers passing through each year this single line of 3000 km, of which one third is lined with a wall of 5 metre-high observation towers and thermal cameras in the world. It is mostly hand drug dealers gang activity and of the border, which concerns the two Presidents. The war between the Mexican State, infiltrated by the traffickers, and the latter was 10,000 dead for eighteen months, the equivalent of human losses in Iraq.

Felipe Calderon, who has launched a military offensive in the area of Michoacan, expected Barack Obama confirm "Merida initiative" 1.4 billion of dollars of aid promised in 2007. A Director of the CIA recently estimated that this trafficking is the main security threat to the United States behind Al Qaeda.

In their final communiqué, the three countries decided yesterday evening to strengthen their cooperation against cross-border criminal networks", without giving more details.