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CBS NEWS EXCLUSIVE: PETER GREENBERG INTERVIEWS MEXICAN PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON – INCLUDES INSIDE LOOK OF CALDERON’S SECRET, UNDERGROUND BUNKER
BROADCASTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, ON
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC
The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC will broadcast an exclusive interview with Mexican President on Friday, November 12 (6:30 p.m., ET) on the CBS Television Network. CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg spent time with Calderon in Mexico, including the first-ever look of his top-secret, $100 million underground bunker and a sit-down interview with the President at Los Pinos, his official residence.
Greenberg was given exclusive access to Calderon, who shared with CBS News examples of the more than 90,000 weapons his government has confiscated in the last four years. The President answered Greenberg’s questions about the escalating violence of Mexico’s drug war, especially now: 2010 is Mexico’s bloodiest on record, with more than 10,000 murders so far this year, a 45% increase during the past year. Remarkably, despite U.S. State Department travel warnings, tourism in Mexico is up 20%, including 5 million Americans.
Following is an excerpt of tonight’s interview.
MANDATORY CREDIT: THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC.On the cost of defeating the drug cartels:Peter Greenberg: Every day there are news reports of killings, of massacres, of bodies found. More than 28,000 people killed. That’s a staggering number, isn’t it?
President Felipe Calderon: We have a serious problem. Yes. However, we are facing the problem, and we are fixing that. It is going to take us money, it is going to take us time, and unfortunately, it is going to take human lives.
On the relationship between Mexico and the United States:Calderon: We have a neighbor who is the largest consumer of drugs in the world, and the problem is everyone wants to sell him drugs through my window or through my door, and that is the beginning of the problem of violence in Mexico. So, the United States needs to reduce the consumption of drugs one way or another.
Calderon: The United States is the largest provider of weapons to the criminals in Mexico. I’m talking like 50,000 assault weapons, AR-15s, machine guns, more than 8,000 grenades, almost 10 million bullets, which is amazing figures.
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