Posted on 05/18/2006 12:35:37 AM PDT by one more state
Police enraged by the kidnapping of six officers club unarmed detainees. A bloody battle between steelworkers and police leaves two miners dead. Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge.
Less than two months before Mexicans elect their next president, many fear the country is teetering on the edge of chaos a perception that could hurt the ruling National Action Party's chances of keeping the presidency and benefit Mexico's once-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, whose candidate has been trailing badly.
Some blame President Vicente Fox for a weak government. Others say rivals are instigating the violence to create that impression, hoping to hurt National Action candidate Felipe Calderon, who has a slight lead in recent polls.
A poll published Friday in Excelsior newspaper found 50 percent of respondents feared the government was on the brink of losing control. The polling company Parametria conducted face-to-face interviews at 1,000 homes across Mexico. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
In April, suspected drug lords posted the heads of two police officers on a wall outside a government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco.
A sign nearby read: "So that you learn to respect."
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There is a difference between people coming here illegally to make money, and real refugees. What I was trying to get across is it looks like ABC is trying here to blur the differences in order to drum up sympathy for the illegals. Wouldn't put it past 'em.
and remember to say thank you afterwards
This won't be a new tatic. If the MSM started promoting that this was anything other than economic they would also have to have a solution to it. God only knows what the MSM solution would be.
Hmmm... good point. But even more reason to seal the border before the "turmoil spreads north." Oh wait, too late, it already has.
It's blurry alright, still heads getting chopped off are sign something is messed up.
You just may have a real good point there! Admittedly, it would be a typical touchy-feely-liberal-sort-of-argument.
I don't think even our leftist would feel safe in Mexico.
their fellow leftist can be fickle as in Trotsky's case
with no lasers? weak... :)
These are the people and this is the culture we want in our country. Right. I guess I will keep on stockpiling against the day.
Ill tempered mutated sea bass, with "lasers".
dude, like is that weed like uh man grown here? oh yeah like the America? no hold on a minute...
There I go, forgotting that /sarcasm again...
...and just what pray tell is excessive home building? Does that mean that thousands of homes sit empty because no one will buy them? Or the last spot of ground capable of supporting a home, has now been built upon. In either case, that isn't FL and you know it.
parts of the gulf coast look like a tornado hit yesterday from hurricanes 2+ years back
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