Presence of Illegal Activities · 7.5 Strategies to Combat Illegal Activities

The criterion is not established by the available evidence.

Mexico allocates general resources to federal institutions involved in security, intelligence, customs, criminal investigation, interdiction, and the management of seized substances. The federal budget, budget analytical files, institutional branch documents, and Public Account establish transversal institutional financing and provide tools for reconstructing certain expenditures.

However, no consolidated and reproducible public account was identified that isolated resources specifically dedicated to reducing drug production and trafficking. The evidence also did not establish, through verified programme codes, the amounts approved, modified, committed, accrued, executed, and paid for this objective while avoiding double counting and separating shared institutional costs.

Under the nexus criterion applied to economic indicators, general security budgets or institutional financing are insufficient: a verifiable link must exist between the budgetary resources and the specific object being assessed.

The tender related to narcotics and precursors establishes a projected procurement process but does not demonstrate an award, contracted amount, execution, or payment. Accordingly, the evidence does not confirm the existence and execution of a budget specifically dedicated to the indicator.

This conclusion reflects evidentiary insufficiency after review of the available corpus and does not establish that such resources are absolutely nonexistent. Factor X does not apply.