U.S. SAYS MEXICO IS MAIN SOURCE OF METH

Mexico City Quito Caracas - Mexican drug traffickers are the main
suppliers of methamphetamine to the United States and produce enormous
quantities of the drug despite government crackdowns, according to a
recent U.S. Justice Department report.

Mexico's efforts to restrict imports of precursor chemicals needed to
make the drug, and a number of high-profile drug busts, have not led
to lower meth production, the report said.

"Despite heightened chemical import restrictions in Mexico,
methamphetamine production in that country has increased since 2004,
and Mexico is now the primary source of methamphetamine to U.S. drug
markets," the National Drug Intelligence Center's 2008 report on
methamphetamine said.