Fresh piece on Mexico as a failed state along with comments on California as a failed US state by Willie.....this is a detailed piece supportive with more detail on the current situation in Mexico...http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1213983840.php
An excerpt:
Violence has spread widely across Mexico. Murders and attempts of police officials are increasing, especially in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. Cease fires between warring drug lord groups are being violated, such as between the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels. Kidnap rings are in operation, with successful tactics. High value targets to date in the Baja and Tijuana have only involved Mexican citizens. A splinter group from the Peoples Revolutionary Army has attacked oil pipeline explosions in the past. That represented a change in tactics, shifting from online anti-government manifestos to actual bomb attacks. They have successfully hit multiple energy targets. Numerous incidents were reported in past months of dead bodies found along roads and in fields, arms tied behind the back, shot in the head. Police have in several cases found stolen police and army uniforms. Even US journalists have been threatened.
A failed nation state is the likely outcome south of the US border. Energy network attacks, growing poverty and inequality, inadequate government services, growing power of organized crime, corruption & desertion of police forces, assassination of judges and officials without consequences, and growing farmer bankruptcy are contributing to a failed system in Mexico. The current farm product price changes have resulted in tremendous additional disruption, losses, and disruption to Mexican agriculture businesses. Needs of people, upheld laws, tax structures, allegiance to authority, and sense of urgency all seem to be in breakdown mode, and have been for several months. Remarkably, the US press networks refuse to cover the stories that form long links in an ugly chain. The division between rich and poor is stark, and growing worse. Furthermore, the system is geared to aggravate that division. The failed state of Mexico will be evident from the top down, from the financial deterioration of its federal government, from the decline in their squandered energy business. Gigantic federal deficits will be the next major story coming from Mexico, along with energy strangulation by labor unions and drug lords who will continue to hold oil pipelines hostage.
That is the biggest bunch of bull crap on Mexico I have seen in a long time.
The middle class constitutes over half the population now, about 53% and growing. This makes it seem like Haiti. Mexico is a middle income country with a better income distribution than Brazil but worse than Costa Rica.
Housing starts have gone up 25% yearly of the last 5 years due to low inflation for about 12 years. New car sales increase average about 8% over the last five years due to expansion of credit due to that same low inflation.
Washington DC is more of a failed state than Mexico.
Bombing of pipelines happen about every two years, mostly communists student/professors from UNAM in Mexico City. It has been going on since the 70’s. Gets repaired in a couple of weeks and back to normal.
The OK City Bombings and Waco are more likely to bring down the US Federal government than these left-wing university types bringing down the Mexican Federal government.
The drug violence up in Northern Mexico and Mexico City is no worse than mob/alcohol violence in NY and Chicago in the 30’s.
I travel extensively through Mexico and overall the situation improves yearly. The Mexican economy grows 5-7% per year and adds about 350k jobs yearly but about 700K youngsters enter the workforce every year.
That is the surplus that heads North.