Posted on 09/09/2010 6:36:13 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY — With a blunt remark that grated on Mexicans, Washington's top diplomat was merely echoing a growing concern about the alarming violence and instability being caused by Mexico's war on drug cartels.
Mexican officials publicly disputed on Thursday the declaration by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton the previous day that Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago."
Clinton's assessment is nevertheless shared by the crime-fighters who dismantled Colombia's killer cartels and have been offering Mexican officials, police and prosecutors advice and training for more than two years.
Critics say Mexican President Felipe Calderon's government has been too slow to heed that advice.
Colombia's police director, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, and others who fended off a criminal takeover in the Andean nation believe Mexico is on the cusp of a battle royale in which politicians, police and judges will increasingly be targeted and terror used against civilians — just as Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cocaine cartel did in their country.
"They are headed there," Naranjo said in a recent interview.
Organized crime analyst Edgardo Buscaglia in Mexico says the escalation of cartel violence in this country mirrors Colombia's experience because it is "directly related to the weakness of the state." It differs, he says, in that it arises mostly as rival gangs fight to put their own people in key jobs at the provincial and local level — such as mayor, prison warden, police chief.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Big difference between the two countrys. mexico has never really been a country, no laws, everything is totally corrupt and always has been. Colombia had a population that was sick of the violence, a leader, Uribe, and had help from the US.
Today the Colombians are greatful while the slimely mexicans blame everything on the US.
Ping!
well we better learn from mexico
I think it is also a case of American weakness, the cartels know that with the Obumbler regime, they can escalate issues in peace with no fear of American invovlement at any level. If Obumbler can’t even deal with nut jobs getting nukes, what do the drug cartles have to fear from him.
The problem is, from reports I see from south of the border, that Columbia is now being infested and working with the Mexican Cartels. Columbia is pushing it’s drugs through Mexico. I think the entire area south of the border has gone to the dark side...and some north of the border!
FYI
Farc supplies Mexican narcos
Bogota – Several chiefs of Mexican narcotrafficking organizations met in Colombia to coordinate the movement of cocaine into Mexico in a strengthening of the alliance between Mexican Cartels, FARC guerillas and Colombian criminal organizations, said General Cesar Pinzon, Director of the Anti-narcotics Police in Bogota.
In an interview today, conducted by the Colombian newspaper El
Tiempo, General Pinzon confirmed that the new heads of Colombian narcotraffickers, and their subservient criminal bands, have pacts with FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) and both factions work for the Mexican Mafia.
The General said that it is known that there are Mexicans in Colombia and Colombians in Mexico involved in the narcotics trade and that they are coordinating with one another.
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=10201542&IdCat=6087\
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