letters@latimes.com

If, as you report (Feb. 21), Washington's antidrug
establishment shared sensitive details of U.S. drug
interdiction strategy with Mexican Drug Czar Jose de Jesus
Gutierrez Rebollo, the implications of his recent arrest
are clear: Personalities and best intentions aside, the
U.S. government was, in effect, pooling information and
working hand in hand with foreign drug cartels.

That the drug war has deeply corrupted Latin American
governments is beyond question. But what's in store for us?
How long will the drug war rage on before the corruption
spreads north?

COSMO WENMAN

Santa Monica