Drug Gangs pushing poor Mexico to the edge of Economic and Social Collapse

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PARTICIPANT

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:20 PM

Drug violence reaches into U.S.; time to act
http://www.timescall.com/editorial/editorial.asp?ID=14513
Responding to fears of escalating violence in Mexico that could spill over the border into Texas and other states, the U.S. government has stepped up law enforcement.

Is Mexico on the verge of collapse?
http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=18087
A retired Mexican army general is dead, a colonel wounded, and a man is under arrest for dissolving the bodies of the victims of narco ultra-violence with caustic soda. Mexico appears overwhelmed by its war on drugs. Is Mexico a failed state?

Possibly all the gang bangers and drugs and beheadings will spread across the borders
large possibility of a spill over into the United States starting a domino effect breaking up the United States

Financial Times
Massacre in Mexico leaves 12 dead
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a244b256-fb99-11dd-bcad-000077b07658.html
By Adam Thomson in Mexico City
Published: February 15 2009 19:56 | Last updated: February 15 2009 19:56
Twelve people were gunned down in southern Mexico at the weekend in a massacre that brought the number of drugs-related murders so far this year to more than 800.
Authorities believe that the latest attack in the state of Tabasco was a revenge killing after police detained a group of local drug dealers last week. Among the victims were a policeman, six children and four women.
The massacre, the bloodiest incident in Tabasco in recent years, is further evidence that the violence stemming from Mexico’s all-out war against organised crime appears to know no limits. Last year roughly 6,000 people were victims of drugs-related murders – almost three times the number for 2007. Those numbers have sparked international concern that Mexico’s drugs war might be getting out of hand.
A report compiled by the US army’s high command that came to light last month stated that “two large and important states bear consideration for rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico”.
Another recent report, written by General Barry McCaffrey, former head of the US army’s southern command and now adjunct professor at Westpoint, said that the drugs cartels had “subverted state and municipal authorities and present a mortal threat to the rule of law across Mexico”.

KWICKO

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:40 PM

Quote:

Possibly all the gang bangers and drugs and beheadings will spread across the borders
large possibility of a spill over into the United States starting a domino effect breaking up the United States

Too late. Have you been anywhere near El Paso lately? How 'bout Brownsville or Laredo?

It's not a "possibility" that it will spill over; it's a certainty.

I don't believe it will break up the U.S., though, but it WILL be a problem on our side of the border, sooner rather than later.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:20 AM

turn off Foxnews for a while

it might be bad, but it won't collapse

Malkin-Beck freakout: Imminent Mexico collapse could doom America!

PARTICIPANT

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:46 PM

Here’s this year’s list, and you can click for the stories at the Project Censored page:
http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/09/25/project-censored-2009-the-
stories-your-corporate-news-whores-are-ignoring/
# 1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
# 9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
# 15 Worldwide Slavery
# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitze

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 23, 2009 11:08 PM

Drug violence tarnishes Mexico's international image
-The US State Department has issued a new travel advisory warning of 'large firefights' across the country.

MEXICO VIOLENT COLLAPSE

Wall Street Journal: Citigroup in Talks That May Raise Governments Stake
- government may end up holding as much as 40 percent of Citigroups common stock

CRAZY!?

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:52 PM

The news is finally been covered by US media and is now going international

news agencies in UK, Germany, Japan are hearing how the towns near Mexico's border are starting to dive into social collapse and anarchy

Q&A: Mexico's drug-fuelled violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906284.stm
Beheadings, attacks on police, and shootings in clubs and restaurants are a daily occurrence in some regions.

KWICKO

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:53 PM

It's time to invade Mexico! Regime change for all!

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

KIRKULES

Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:02 AM

The Feds are starting to take the threat from drug cartels more seriously.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29389404/

KWICKO

Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kirkules:
The Feds are starting to take the threat from drug cartels more seriously.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29389404/

Of course they are. [/sarcasm]

One thing I saw reported in Texas Monthly was an article which claimed that there were over 1350 murders in Juarez last year - right across the border from El Paso.

The article also mentioned in an off-hand way that there was a planeload of meth that went down. Oddly, it had the exact same registration tail number as one of the CIA's planes that was used extensively in extraordinary rendition flights.

Odd, that. I wonder if Eugene Hasenfuss was in the area? ;)

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

KIRKULES

Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kirkules:
The Feds are starting to take the threat from drug cartels more seriously.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29389404/

Of course they are. [/sarcasm]

One thing I saw reported in Texas Monthly was an article which claimed that there were over 1350 murders in Juarez last year - right across the border from El Paso.

The article also mentioned in an off-hand way that there was a planeload of meth that went down. Oddly, it had the exact same registration tail number as one of the CIA's planes that was used extensively in extraordinary rendition flights.

Odd, that. I wonder if Eugene Hasenfuss was in the area? ;)

Mike

So you were serious about wanting regime change in Mexico, I thought you were just being a moronic asshole as usual.

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