It is a shame that this American got killed. There is risk involved when one goes to a country in civil upheaval. I do not agree with the guy's politics and alignment with the Marxists. Yet this is what happens when local order is turned over to mob rule.
Protestors were killed in the LA Riots by police, too. Sad, very sad. And SO STUPID. The police wouldn't be out there if the anarchists hadn't been fomenting chaos.
Mexico today, the U.S. tomorrow
It stinks when some child of privilege with a fine education and all the advantages suffers from Marxist delusions and actually goes off to impoverished regions of the world and helps make things miserable for innocent families who are trying to live their lives in peace.
No doubt he deluded himself with the illusion that he was "helping" them by siding with violent revolutionaries and power-drunk Marxist thugs.
Probably he had a couple of Che Guevara T-shirts in his backpack, to wear on social occasions.
Sad, but he was not entirely innocent, if this story is correct.
hmmm, anyone who doesn't think we are going to end up in war with Mexico over this?
I smell Hugo Chavez's hand in this mess. The US cannot let this moron steal the next election.
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chavez is helping with those riots...that can be counted on...
...an aspiring Leni Riefenstahl
Pronunciation, please, anyone? Looks like owa-hah-ka to me (since the X in Mexico sounds like an H).
Kinda reminds me of the idiot who lived with the grizzlies and ended up becoming their main course. I wonder what his last conscious thought was...."Hey, wait a minute, I'm a school trained journalist, I'm supposed to be detached, above it all, impervious to the events around me. Besides, I'm one of you...***click***
The reporter was there to support the "leftist protestors."
In fact, Indymedia is one of the most violently, virulently marxist operative organizations around. They are best know for their campaign encouraging U.S. troops to shoot their officers.
They're hand in hand, in league, with Michael Moore and most likely supported by George Soros.
Every FReeper should be well aware of Indymedia. They are the enemy.
For later
Sorry for the lenght of this article but is subscription and cannot do a link. Will post in two parts on violence in Mexico
Escalating Violence
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
10/25/06 17:20:20
In one recent and particularly gruesome incident that illustrates the current level of violence in Mexico, a group of masked gunmen entered the Light and Shadow nightclub in Uruapan, Michoacan state, on Sept. 6, fired weapons into the air and then tossed five severed human heads onto the dance floor. Beheadings had already reached the U.S. border in June, when Mexican authorities recovered four beheaded bodies from a vacant lot in Tijuana, and then pulled the heads from the nearby Tijuana River. The victims were three local police officials and a civilian.
Mexican drug gangs, who used the beheadings tactic for the first time in April, are sending a clear message that they are willing to go to any lengths to get what they want -- and that anyone who gets in their way is doomed. This same message also has been delivered via a number of attacks using grenades and assault rifles in other parts of Mexico, including the U.S. border cities of Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana and Juarez.
Another example of the escalation in violence is the Sept. 22 firefight in an upscale neighborhood of Nuevo Laredo between enforcers for the Gulf cartel and the security forces of an assassination target (presumably from the Sinaloa cartel). The engagement, which raged on for some 40 minutes and involved anti-tank weapons, hand grenades and automatic weapons fire, reportedly resulted in the deaths of five Gulf cartel enforcers and five other people.
The Mexican government has tried various tactics throughout the years to stem the violence and corruption associated with cartels, including dispatching military troops to Nuevo Laredo and other border cities. In June 2005, a string of events in Nuevo Laredo -- including the killing of two police chiefs in the city, the second of which occurred only a few hours after he was sworn into office -- prompted the Mexican government to dispatch army troops and federal agents to the town. The army and federal agents detained all 700 officers of the Nuevo Laredo police force and temporarily assumed their duties until some semblance of order could be restored. Following interviews and drug tests, only 150 of the police officers retained their jobs; the rest were terminated or arrested. More recently, in March, the Mexican government assigned an additional 600 members of the Federal Preventative Police to Nuevo Laredo as part of another program to fight increased violence related to the drug trade. Such solutions, however, have failed to stem the corruption and violence. As evidenced by the major firefight Sept. 22, Nuevo Laredo remains a hotbed of cartel activity.
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The various enforcer groups have targeted Mexican government officials protecting rival cartels, the leadership of the rival cartels and members of those cartels' enforcement arms. Some extremely brutal executions of members of Los Zetas and Los Pelones by their contemporaries have occurred, including not only beheading but also a tactic called "necklacing," in which a tire is placed around a victim's neck and set ablaze. (The tactic was made famous by the African National Congress in South Africa).
The drug cartels also conduct intimidation campaigns and reprisal attacks against noncriminal groups such as police, government security forces and journalists -- anyone who is seen as a threat to their business. Such attacks are quite significant, and gruesome executions are often the norm. That said, the crime gangs are not always precise in their targeting. At times, they have mowed down police on the streets with assault rifles or attacked police stations with grenades and other heavy weapons, causing considerable collateral damage.
I wonder if any of Puties new AK's were involved.