Ciudad Juarez mayor asks Mexican Army to stay longer

(CNN) -- The mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is asking Mexican federal authorities not to pull military units out of the region for at least another six months.

A decision on whether to withdraw the troops is expected before September 15. The troops were sent to the city across from El Paso, Texas, in the spring of 2008 to help quell violence involving warring drug cartels. An additional surge of troops was sent this spring.

That surge appeared to work at first, cutting the homicide rate in Juarez drastically. But murders in the city spiked over the summer.

Figures provided by the city show that in August. more than 300 people were killed, the deadliest month so far this year. In July, 260 died and in June, 220. Those numbers were in stark contrast to 16 homicides in March, 42 in April and 60 in May.

“It’s getting really bad down there, and is spilling into America.”

Yes, it is. Actually ‘pouring’ in is more accurate. And the ‘human rights’ groups are demanding that the military get out of town. I think the cartels own everyone down there....and too many here. In a recent poll of the Mexian people, they preferred the cartels to the military....that is the kind of people marching by the thousands over our borders.

“A couple days ago there was arrests of drugs being brought over to Univ. of Texas El Paso (located smack dab on the border across from Juarez) in “student” backpacks. Glad to see they’re keeping it on that side of the river - not.”

Last month Mexico legalized possession of drugs, even crack for their ‘citizens’. Every back pack coming over that border is going to be full of drugs now. But then when the cartels are warring for territory for their plantations in our national parks and forests, they don’t need to bring that over any more.

“Just the other day there was a massacre of at least 12 in some club over there.”

The cartels are killing people down there trying to get OFF drugs!

Gunmen kill 17 people at a drug rehab in Mexico

Posted on September 03, 2009 at 05:27 AM
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — An official says gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation center in northern Mexico and shot 17 people dead.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMi5B2USfJStXxfqgWWr2xjRYpOgD9AFL8EG3
Senior security official shot dead in Mexico
Posted on September 03, 2009 at 05:27 AM
(CNN) — Gunmen shot dead the No. 2 security official and three others Wednesday in the home state of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a government spokesman said.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/03/mexico.violence/index.html?eref=rss_world

I’d revisit that poll.

Mexico has conscription and most folks have more trust in their military than their police or the cartels.

Unfortunately, the political system is convoluted and corrupted between the cartels, police, state, federal, and military.

The common man frequently trusts/distrusts only those whom he knows most directly. Security is procured locally as another service. Justice is perceived from a lessor educated to liberally educated perspective mixing Marxist slang with indigenous cultural emphasis. This generation has inherited their poverty from older generations, have learned how to barter by asking high and negotiating a sell when trades, crafts, and arts were still prolific amongst the poor. When the mechanics of supply and demand intrude upon market pricing, too often isolated perceptions of worth use Marxist language as a crutch to politicize the economics and power structures.

Today, the arts, crafts, and trades procured are being replaced by ‘off-the-shelf’ items from China, Home Depot, WallMart, and Costco in Mexico itself. The sleepy little ville of Oaxaca, with an urban population of 10,000-50,000 is now has a population of half a million in a 25sqmi area.

Meanwhile, many utilitarian commodities have escalated by a factor of 5, concurrent with population growth and local economies allowing midlevel suppliers to enter the markets. Bulk buying for least cost value is confused with large industry mass producing substandard quality products, while smaller family operated crafts with skill, are forced to paying higher retail rates for raw materials. Capitalism is now associated with discouraging quality, rather than increasing the utilitarian availability of essential commodities. These economics are frequently labeled in terms of ‘proletariat’ and ‘bourgeois’ forces due to Marxist influence in mid level educational environments.

On the contrary, IMHO, I associate socialism and Marxism with promoting oligopolies, reducing the economic basis for the middle class, and promoting a rich-poor class structure throughout the Americas and destroying the American dream.

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