The documents provide details of long-known tensions in the fight against drug trafficking, showing a range of cooperation with US law enforcement from pleas for help from Mexican officials to outright efforts at sabotage in Venezuela and elsewhere, the newspaper said.
Mexican military leaders asked to work more closely with the US agency, saying they did not trust police in their own country, the report said. While, in Venezuela officials tried to hack into US email accounts and infiltrate DEA operations.
The agency also received numerous requests to use its resources to thwart politcal enemies of officials and get involved in local matters in Paraguay, Panama and elsewhere.
(Published 26 December 2010, 03:55 IST)
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