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- RadiantSilver, on 02/21/2009, -10/+185There is a war in our backyard. WTF are we doing sending the military to the Middle East, when it's obvious that we need to be securing our border from armies of organized criminals?
- inactive, on 02/21/2009, -2/+109Update:
Police chief quits admist threat, Texas prepares for fall of Mexican Govenment and fleeing victims
http://digg.com/world_news/Mexican_Police_Chief_Qu ... - inactive, on 02/21/2009, -3/+81Very near the border west of Texas:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CIUDAD+JUAREZ,+Mexic ...
FTA: "More than 6,000 people have been killed in drug violence across Mexico over the past year as gangs battle each other for territory and to fight off a nationwide crackdown by the army. Nearly a third of the slayings have taken place in Ciudad Juarez, and more than 50 of those dead are city police officers." - czernel, on 02/21/2009, -1/+73Travel Alert
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
This information is current as of today, Sat Feb 21 2009 10:42:34 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time).
The situation in Ciudad Juarez is of special concern. Mexican authorities report that more than 1,800 people have been killed in the city since January 2008. Additionally, this city of 1.6 million people experienced more than 17,000 car thefts and 1,650 carjackings in 2008. U.S. citizens should pay close attention to their surroundings while traveling in Ciudad Juarez, avoid isolated locations during late night and early morning hours, and remain alert to news reports. A recent series of muggings near the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez targeted applicants for U.S. visas. Visa and other service seekers visiting the Consulate are encouraged to make arrangements to pay for those services using a non-cash method.
U.S. citizens are urged to be alert to safety and security concerns when visiting the border region. Criminals are armed with a wide array of sophisticated weapons. In some cases, assailants have worn full or partial police or military uniforms and have used vehicles that resemble police vehicles. While most crime victims are Mexican citizens, the uncertain security situation poses serious risks for U.S. citizens as well...
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_302 ... - kublerross, on 02/21/2009, -14/+85the armies of organized criminals are called corporations here at home, and unless those mexican gangs cause any loss of profit to our corporations, or somehow discover oil, america will do nothing.
- DiggMasterJ, on 02/21/2009, -7/+74There are too many extremely powerful and rich drug and mafia kings in Mexico. The only logical way to stop them is with strategic, covert assassinations. The government is out maned, out financed, and penetrated in every office. The only thing that could save Mexico is a general with enough resources at his disposal to make the hits, keep the operations off the books, and not raise suspicions about himself.
- sleze, on 02/21/2009, -5/+71"slay at least one officer every 48 hours until the Ciudad Juarez police chief resigns"
Sounds like the Mexican drug lords just got the Dark Knight on BluRay - inactive, on 02/21/2009, -23/+88end the marijuana tax stamp act
- nadalbg, on 02/21/2009, -2/+54Mexico is a nice country, I hope they get over those gangs and live more peacefuly.
- netant, on 02/21/2009, -0/+50You have an organized, well armed group of combatants who are literally attacking your police force to the point where you cannot maintain law and order in your country. Is it just me, or would declaring martial law upon the region, putting in your military, and then just conducting military operations upon the gangs known hideouts make sense in this instance?
What would be the course of action if this were happening in the US? - inactive, on 02/21/2009, -4/+49I give Mexico less then 5 years before the government collapses and is completely controlled by warlords. Its going to be interesting to border a country which will be the North American equivalent of Somalia.
- RaulMuadDib, on 02/21/2009, -2/+46I was in Mexico and bribed a cop with 4 dollars not to give me a ticket. Some people say I overpaid.
- Pillage, on 02/21/2009, -4/+47my car doesn't run on salsa
- edstate, on 02/21/2009, -5/+45If this works, Mexico is doomed.
- worthyda, on 02/21/2009, -12/+52C'mon, just legalize drugs - at least marijuana. Stop the black market empowering these people. People are going to use drugs regardless. Why should their money go to drug cartels when it could go to American workers?
- divinediva, on 02/21/2009, -4/+42The violence is spreading like wildfire across the Rio Grande.
- LedZepAddict, on 02/21/2009, -0/+36Unfortunately it's been working for years, and as a Mexican, I am incredibly disappointed. The Mexcian government/police has always been one of the dirtiest in the world with corruption, drug bribes, etc, and now that they try to clean house they get this.
- TheEngineer2008, on 02/21/2009, -0/+35I think that's what he was saying.
- redcolumbine, on 02/21/2009, -5/+39Kick the profit underpinnings out from under the gangs: http://www.leap.cc/ No profit, no motive, no gangs.
- inactive, on 02/21/2009, -14/+47Another success story from the "war on drugs."
Making weed and coke illegal sure is working out well. - vault, on 02/21/2009, -8/+41How on earth is a Mexican gang killing a Mexican cop the fault of America?
- pezangel, on 02/21/2009, -0/+32http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/suau_ ...
Execution
Francisco de Jesús Ibarra, 33, was found dead in a canal on the outskirts of San Pedro, near Culiacan. The nature of the killing—Ibarra was beaten and shot in the head — suggests that his murder was drug-related. - AtheismFTW, on 02/21/2009, -1/+33It's not NEAR the border, it IS the border.
El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico (aka El Paso del Norte) are really the same city that was split in half by being seperated into two countries. - Albumen, on 02/21/2009, -8/+38It would be easier and possibly quicker to leagalize marijuana production on US soil. Any thinking person knows that marijuana is not a drug in the same class as meth, X, cocaine or heroin.
The same people who rail against the evils of pot go home after work and have a martini and thinks that's somehow different. Stop the hypocrisy.
Although I have in the past, I don't smoke anymore and haven't for 20 years at least. I didn't have a problem stopping. Compare that to cigarettes where, were it not for anti-depressants, I could almost never have quit. - m0llusk, on 02/21/2009, -7/+34This is happening because of ongoing prohibitions.
- Netik09, on 02/21/2009, -0/+25Thank you. As a Mexican, I appreciate your comment.
- inactive, on 02/21/2009, -1/+26Yeah - the tax stamp act is what makes growing marijuana illegal.
- BradicusMaximus, on 02/21/2009, -4/+26The United States is not prepared for the massive influx of refugees which will stream into the country should Mexico fall.
- bastardo, on 02/21/2009, -2/+23It's not even about legalizing pot anymore guys, their profits now come from harder drugs (cocaine, heroin) AND they control basically all illegal trade: Prostitution, kidnappings, business extortion, and they own politicians. They already own the country, and now they're moving into the USA.
- inactive, on 02/21/2009, -2/+20They are - obviously, they're smuggling other things like cocaine, too, but just taking care of the marijuana issue would make a huge dent in the problem.
- Kens5Martha, on 02/21/2009, -1/+18This is happening way to close for comfort for us in South Texas...Just the other day two council members were shot in Mexico...This is serious stuff...
http://www.kens5.com/latestnews/stories/KENS200902 ... - AboveandBeyond, on 02/21/2009, -7/+22They should recruit mexican superman and mexican batman.
- jimbod, on 02/21/2009, -0/+15You see rancidpony, you are allowed to grow and sell pot so long as you have the proper stamp on it that says you have paid your marijuana taxes. The only problem is that stamps were never produced or distributed thus any one who posesses marijuana doesn't have a stamp and is violating the law.
Didn't you watch that movie? - endgame, on 02/21/2009, -5/+20Mexico is FAR more dangerous than Iraq right now. And guess what the U.S. government wont send troops to our borders to PROTECT YOU because it would "Send the wrong message". Sad really!
- ApathyDrive, on 02/21/2009, -1/+15right, because when prohibition ended in America, all the mobsters still controlled vast amounts of power and weren't hindered at all without speak easyresources.
Thats exactly what happened. - bulbasuar, on 02/21/2009, -1/+15 Wow.
- ipushmycar, on 02/21/2009, -4/+17It's Mexico... the U.S. doesn't give a ***** about Mexico. Nothing is going to happen here in the U.S. until these Mexican drug lords come into the States and start killing people.
- rancidpony, on 02/21/2009, -14/+27WTF does the tax stamp act have to do with these criminals? You should be asking to legalize growing pot at home for personal consumption.
That puts the criminals out of business & allows you your pot. - Saladas, on 02/21/2009, -0/+13"Some Mexicans have questioned whether President Feline Caldron's two-year, nationwide crackdown on drug gangs was worth all the killings."
Mexican president name is Felipe Calderon, cant believe this is an article from Time, ..... - twiztidsinz, on 02/21/2009, -5/+18I dont think these guys are smuggling marijuana....
- ThatGeek, on 02/21/2009, -7/+19@Dzonatas
Mexico hasnt been trying to blow us up recently - RC18, on 02/21/2009, -5/+17how very inappropriate.
- Megaloth, on 02/21/2009, -1/+12WTF? Do this guys from TIME call themselves professionals?
Gerard Ruin Mattes??? It's Gerardo Ruiz Mateos.
Juan Palo Ruin?? Such name and last name doesn't exist. (Palo and Ruin)
Sacramento Peruse?? Sacramento Pérez.
Jaime Toreros? Jaime Torres.
Morons. - twiztidsinz, on 02/21/2009, -0/+11You're not a rebel.... You're a ***** troll.
And an exceptionally ignorant one at that. - t0x2c, on 02/21/2009, -1/+12These gangs deal mostly in Cocaine. Personally I'm against legalizing such a dangerous drug. However, a better solution would be spending more money on education than drug warfare.
- bobburn1, on 02/21/2009, -1/+11
Was it also the civilians fault when prohibition of alcohol caused violent gangs to control its trade and manufacture? Yes, you are such a loser if you can't see the cause of this violence is prohibition. If you prohibit something, you create a black market and along with that market comes violence. - twiztidsinz, on 02/21/2009, -0/+10Yeah.. I realized shortly after I posted I should have been more specific by saying "smuggling JUST marijuana"
- McDeath, on 02/21/2009, -1/+11The death sentence is not going to to anything when the police cannot arrest these guys. These drug gangs are heavily armored (with American weapons), so the police do not stand a chance against them.
- opticwind, on 02/21/2009, -0/+10Or other sites like...time.com?
Also:
Fox: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497764,00.html
MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29303886/ - franklymister, on 02/21/2009, -1/+11As opposed to the millions that are streaming into the country now?
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