Mexico has lost the drug war. Our neighbor to the south is officially a narco-economy now. The gangsters and murderers wield more power than the federal government. They operate with impunity. And they are taking this war across the border – expanding their base of operations and extending their killing fields.Jose Felix was appointed as head of a drug intelligence unit in Mexico. Less than 30 days later, he was shot and killed in a street ambush, assassinated by the drug lords.
TV journalists are being kidnapped by drug cartels.
An army captain was kidnapped and killed in Chilpancingo by cartel killers.
A federal police investigator was shot dead in Tijuana.
We read of wild and insane gun battles between Mexican soldiers and the drug cartels in towns just across our border:
A bloodbath just south of the Mexican border has alarmed neighboring Arizona towns that have been monitoring the violence in the Mexican state of Sonora the past two months.Mexico City's El Universal newspaper reported more than 1,000 people have been killed by the drug cartels in the first five months of 2007.
Mexican police killed 15 armed assailants in a fierce gun battle Wednesday after tracking a group that killed four policemen.
About 40 assailants apparently related to Mexico's powerful drug gangs, drove in a convoy of up to 15 vehicles into the town of Cananea, 20 miles south of the U.S. border, to seize the policemen Wednesday. Mexican state police confronted the gunmen in the mountains 60 miles south of Cananea and reportedly killed 15 of the gunmen.
To repeat - "These drug cartels now wield more power than the Mexican federal government. They operate with impunity. And they are taking this war across the border - expanding their base of operations and extending their killing fields into American cities."
And Bush, sellout traitor that he is, is doing nothing. Congress must force this weasely little Texas toad to start protecting America, or toss his pro-corporate anti-American ass out into the street.
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Check out the Killing Fields: Harvest of Women by Diana Washington Valdez [Peace; 2006]. It's all about the drug cartel and corruption in Mexico and how that ties in to the murders of hundreds of women.
Kind of sad there's not that Blue Line of Silence south of the border...That way, more of these drug cartel bastards would start disappearing "and nobody would be any the wiser."
Not a real shocker people are doing anything to get the hell out of there, including breaking the law.
Galt-in-da-box:
I can fully appreciate the desire of those wanting to escape the insanity that is today's Mexico.
But... I believe that if they wish to come here, they should do so legally, not start their life off in America as a criminal.
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