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    Mexico-US border police chiefs were at the top of the news in recent days. In a bitter twist to an almost fairytale story that captured the imagination of the US and Mexican press, the 20-year-old  police chief of a small town in the blood-soaked Juarez Valley, Marisol Valles, fled to the US seeking political asylum last week.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The presidential meeting this week between Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. But while most analysts emphasized the tensions between the neighboring nations going into the meeting, the real crisis behind the visit was the failure of what the two leaders most strongly agree on: the war on drugs south of the border.</p>