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To: G.Mason
I don't know if you've been following this weeks news about the border area --- more proof that Mexican military and police are heavily involved with drug smuggling, torture and murder.

Newest police crime scandal rocks Mexico: Juarez lawmen linked to bodies in back yard

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068668/posts

Involvement of corrupt police and military units in the lucrative narcotics trade has been a long-standing problem in Mexico.

Successive presidential administrations have for more than a decade routinely purged and reorganized the federal police force, to little avail. Macedo announced earlier this week that another purge of some 900 federal agents was under way.

Similar crackdowns have roiled Mexico's army and navy with about the same results. And state and local police in drug-producing or border states, and along the corridors through which Colombian cocaine is smuggled, are often found to be in the pay of traffickers.

92 posted on 01/31/2004 11:55:08 AM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
'I don't know if you've been following this weeks news about the border area --- more proof that Mexican military and police are heavily involved with drug smuggling, torture and murder."

I appreciate the thought, and information.

I have been "educating" myself on this, and must say it is discouraging, to say the least.

We are dying from a thousand cuts.




Regards

93 posted on 01/31/2004 12:44:39 PM PST by G.Mason ("The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures" - Old Democrat saying)
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