Recent US news headlines about Mexico have focused on the increasingly violent struggle between the government and Mexico’s powerful narco-traffickers. President Felipe Calderon, who seized power after a highly contested—some would say stolen—election in 2006 has promised to rule Mexico with a firm hand, and the result has been intense and violent political repression. Is US military aid to Mexico in the form of the Merida Initiative facilitating repression while it creates security apparatus to "arm" NAFTA. Chiapas-based journalist Kristin Bricker and human rights activist Monica Wooters report.