Posted on 03/15/2010 5:45:21 PM PDT by muffaletaman
Juárez, a sprawling industrial city that butts against El Paso, Texas, has grown used to such scenes. A turf war between the local drugs cartel and its rival from the neighbouring Sinaloa state over neighbourhood narcotics sales and smuggling routes into the US has turned the city of just over 1.3m people into one of the most bloody on earth in just over a year.
To control the violence, President Felipe Calderón has deployed thousands of soldiers and federal police. In doing so, he has made Juárez the largest, most important laboratory for his centre-right administration’s priority: to win back territorial control from national drugs cartels that lord over a trade estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars a year. Indeed, some analysis even suggests that the groups have grown so powerful that failure to haul them in could drive Mexico to the brink of becoming a failed state.
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The solution is simple. End the gun control laws. Allow the people to arm and defend themselves. There will be a spate of deaths as the criminals are killed off, but within a year the violence against the unarmed innocent will have abated, and law and order will finally have a chance.
Radical surgery to prevent a worse outcome, but the path to freedom from these predators is by becoming defenders of freedom instead of prey of the killers.
This is not something they have in their tradition. But it is time they learned it.
These, our neighbors, in the end can only save themselves... we cannot do it for them.
As always, IMHO... ;^)
Mexico City is a pisshole. Not much more need be said.
Title was supposed to be “Mexico: City of Darkness,” from the article. Can you correct? Thanks...
Excellent analysis!
I’d just build a 60-foot wall and let them sort it out.
Half that cesspool extends 20 miles into Texas, engulfing El Paso Texas.
Half that cesspool extends 20 miles into Texas, engulfing El Paso Texas.
6 posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 8:59:35 PM by dragnet2
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Not any more!! I live in the Austin area (Pflugerville), and within the last few weeks there have been several houses raided by a combined law enforcement task force. All of the perps taken into custody were members of Mexican drug cartels. One of the houses was within a mile of me. This stuff is coming to our streets. Be prepared. See my tag line.
Take a look at this. Mexicans said to be retaliating because they don’t want US meddling in their affairs.
About the murders in Mexico:
“Analysts seem to think this is a message the killers are sending to US and foreign officials, saying that they don’t want them here - they don’t want any meddling.[snip]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2472183/posts?page=14#14
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