Ana María Salazar Slack

Grupo Salazar

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Instructor in national security and leadership courses at Mexico's Army and Naval Colleges and Director of Grupo Salazar; Editor in Chief of Mexico Daily Review and host of Living in Mexico, a daily news radio show; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy (Clinton Administration); 

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Mi Guerra Es Su Guerra

The US Secretaries of State, Defense and Homeland Security all went to Mexico yesterday along with the Director of National Intelligence and the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. …

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