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FILE - In this April 23, 2009 file photo, an unidentified man sits handcuffed as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent holds the $24,000 in cash found hidden in his shoes in Laredo, Texas. A highly touted U.S. Treasury Department program to starve Mexican drug cartels of $25 billion a year in U.S. income has blocked just $3 million this year, an Associated Press investigation has found. That's in addition to $58 million seized in cash under a new initiative at the U.S.-Mexico border. The figures suggest that $99.75 of every $100 the cartels ship south is getting through — money that is fueling a brutal war that has killed 14,000 people in three years.