Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 1,055,368 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$5,168.3 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.9% (2003)
Transnational Issues Mexico
Disputes - international:
prolonged drought, population growth, and outmoded practices and
infrastructure in the border region have strained water-sharing
arrangements with the US; nationals from Central America slip into
Mexico seeking work or transit into the US; undocumented Mexican
nationals continue to enter the United States
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 12,000 (government's quashing of Zapatero uprising in 1994 in
eastern Chiapas Region) (2004)
Illicit drugs:
illicit cultivation of opium poppy (cultivation in 2001 - 4,400
hectares; potential heroin production - 7 metric tons) and of
cannabis (in 2001 - 4,100 hectares); government eradication efforts
have been key in keeping illicit crop levels low; major supplier of
heroin and largest foreign supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine
to the US market; continues as the primary transshipment country for
US-bound cocaine from South America, accounting for about 70 percent
of estimated annual cocaine movement to the US; major drug
syndicates control majority of drug trafficking throughout the
country; producer and distributor of ecstasy; significant
money-laundering center
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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