Ahem. They "hit" Pentagon too. Doesn't jive well with your logic.
Damn Mex, I'm sorry to hear how bad things have gotten over there! Those numbers you threw out are mind boggling and I can't imagine living in those conditions. Maybe it's time for you to cross the border (regardless of legality) until things restabilize. I'm sure there are some goodjers in TX that could lend a hand.
Ahem. They "hit" Pentagon too. Doesn't jive well with your logic.
I misspoke, the reason they hit _how_ they did, not where.
Drug-related murders in Mexico more than doubled this year to nearly 5,400 and the violence is likely to worsen in 2009, the nation's top prosecutor says."We still haven't reached the peak of violence," Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora told reporters.
He attributed the rising violence to the internal power struggles as drug gangs split and fight for turf.
The government has deployed some 40,000 troops and police since December 2006 against the cartels.
The number of killings linked to organised crime registered between 1 January and 2 December was 5,376 - a rise of 117% on the same period last year, Mr Medina Mora told foreign correspondents in Mexico City.
November was the bloodiest month yet - with 943 murders.
"We're still seeing the curve rise. We still haven't reached the peak of violence," Mr Medina Mora said.
But he stressed that Mexico's overall murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants is 11, compared with 33 in Colombia or 50 in El Salvador.
A 117% rise and we're still not at the worst of it yet. Moreover, I like Mr. Mora's "it's not that bad" justification of using murder per 100,000 statistics in nations that combined are barely half the size of Mexico.
Maybe a dumb question, but why hasn't the army been mobilized to deal with this? Are they corrupt too?
I don't know about all the Mexican military but some certainly are working for the drug cartels.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321547,00.html
Yes, I realize the source is Fox News but in this case their info is correct. The Border Patrol believes that these incursions are staged to draw the Border Patrol to the site of the incursion opening the border for the drug mules to cross.
edit:Another article from the Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/06/soldiers-cross-into-us-hold-guns-to-agent/
Man, our drug war is just wrecking you guys. That sucks
Just to add a third inside voice on this, things are probably just as bad here.
Last week, during the day in a busy street, a guy was cut in by a truck. The drivers got in an argument and got down of their vehicles. The guy from the truck had a gun and shot the other guy on the a*s a couple of times. I mean, he was lucky not to get killed (last thing I heard he was alive), but those people are in control and are wickedly proud of that.
I know this because a friend of mine told me, I prefer not to watch news or read the newspaper anymore. But every time I overhear the news or open the local newspaper's site to check something out it's the same thing: dead bodies found or abductions right in the middle of day. Now I know people who know people who know people who have been kidnapped and some years ago it was only a story in the news every once in a while. This feels like Aeon Flux without Charlize Theron. For the most part I go to work in the morning and when the day is over I head back home and stay there. What scares me the most is the police.
A couple of days ago there were some banners like the ones Mex mentioned but they were telling on the corruption of a high police chief and corruption in the army. They said the police chief was protecting one of the cartels behind many kidnappings and were asking the President to act. The banners were unsigned but were similar to others used used before by some of the cartels. My friends and I were having a conversation about this and some of the comments were "They do it because of their own agenda", "Maybe they do it for the people". I couldn't stop myself from thinking about anti-heroes and if a conversation like that would took place about Batman if the guy existed.
Scary.
According to wikipedia (it must be true!) Mexico's per-100,000 homicide rate as of 2007 is actually 25, and I doubt it's dropped in 2008.
Then, last week, the General Director of Anti-kidnapping police department of that state was kidnapped.
Wow. From a distance, it sounds like the whole country is breaking down. Do you think you'll be seeing South-Africa style home defense systems with bodyguards and flame throwers on cars?
Mad Mex?
I'm picturing something more like this:
Mex does play the guitar, after all.
Mad Mex?
I laughed way too hard at this, considering the situation in Mexico.
I heard about an hour north of Acapulco, they found 9 bodies the other days. The heads showed up in different towns, and some Army soldiers turned out to be missing...
Well, if you need to become the 51st-60th state of the union maybe we can convince Obama. After all WW2 got our industrial base back up and running post the 30's depression. Maybe fighting a guerilla war in Mexico will do the same for us in the teens.
Just today a commando attacked the probably most important local TV station. I haven't find details but it seems like they shot and threw a grenade at the building. No word about injuries yet.
They left a message stating that the station should inform about drug lords and not only against them (or something like that, actually I didn't understand the message in Spanish either).
EDIT: I think I get it now, the meaning would be something like "Stop broadcasting only about us, broadcast about the corrupt heads of state too"
A related article published in the NY Times on Wednesday.
A related article published in the NY Times on Wednesday.
That picture looks like Somali technical, doesn't it?
That picture looks like Somali technical, doesn't it?
It's cutting edge technology against organized crime!
Another article: Pakistan, Mexico and U.S. nightmares
What would you think would be a viable solution? Not that I reject your comment but honestly I don't see any way out of this.
A not-so-much related article: Relative of U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes kidnapped and released in Juárez
Hey let us make mexico the 51st state! It would solve the whole illegal immigration thing really fast and give the US a big oil reserve. All we have to do is get some army guys down there to kick some drug cartel ass!
What do you think mex, as mex the plumber ladies man would you like this or dislike this
Good Lord, Mex. Stay safe. Consider moving to TX. We like guns here, and your TF2 ping will be a lot better.
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