{"id":2150,"date":"2009-03-18T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2009-03-18T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:47:36","slug":"2150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/2150\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts say Mexican organized crime a threat to U.S. citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Washington Post  <\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Experts say Mexican organized crime a threat to U.S. citizens   <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. efforts to help the Mexican government battle powerful organized crime networks are falling short, and a recent sharp spike in violence south of the border poses a growing threat to U.S. citizens, Senate lawmakers and independent experts told officials from three federal agencies today on Capitol Hill&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Mexican drug cartels . . . pose a direct threat to Americans,&#8221; said  Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the subcommittee chairman, noting that they now operate in at least 230 U.S. cities, up from about 50 in 2006. <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/17\/AR2009031701997.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Experts say Mexican organized crime a threat to U.S. citizens U.S. efforts to help the Mexican government battle powerful organized crime networks are falling short, and a recent sharp spike in violence south of the border poses a growing threat to U.S. citizens, Senate lawmakers and independent experts told officials from three federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}