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The bitter price to pay for Mexico's bloody drugs war
The Daily Telegraph ^ | 10/09/2011 | Harriet Alexander

Posted on 10/09/2011 5:57:15 AM PDT by EnglishCon

Ms Valles, 21, fled Mexico in fear of her life, hustling her parents, sisters, husband and one-year-old son into a 4 x 4 vehicle and hurtling across the border to seek asylum in the United States. They left just in time. That night a squad of hit men arrived at their small bungalow and ransacked the rooms.

"I would like to go back home," she said. "But if I hadn't left my country I wouldn't be alive now."

In spite of her diminutive size and sweet, girlish manner, Ms Valles had some powerful and vicious enemies. The criminology graduate was appointed chief of police in the small town of Praxedis G Guerrero, 50 miles east of Ciudad Juarez and a few miles from the US border.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; borderwars; castaway; cia; dea; dhs; doj; drugcartel; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; mexico; obama; perjury
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To: caww

“None of the addicts in the Utrecht programme have been in trouble with the law since starting the treatment. The mere fact that they know they will get their heroin every day means they are calm. They don’t need to steal any more. They can even think about what they want to do with what’s left of their lives. They used to spend the whole day just worrying about scoring.”


61 posted on 10/09/2011 6:54:12 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: ClearCase_guy

We are speaking of one specific case not a raped 12 yr old or amnesty for all...the London Telegraph is reporting on some very interesting facts here, not rambling on about carte blanch amnesty. What other media outlets report in regard to human rights and amnesty, I really don’t give a damn. We have traveled down this road too long to not be aware of media bias or their opinions. Other parts of the story are quite interesting to me.

Thanks


62 posted on 10/09/2011 7:22:55 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: EnglishCon
Interesting how Afghanistan was used in comparison re: death toll etc right next door....if the border states could act as they see fit for the best interest of her citizens without interference from Washington, things might change. I came across an old Supreme Ct case that would not allow an illegal offspring to pay for education here in the states as attempted in a municipality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyler_v._Doe

63 posted on 10/09/2011 7:41:02 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Citizen Tom Paine
The estimated number of drug addicts in the US is 7 million or 2% of the population. Mexico's addicts number 4.5 million or 3% of their population.

If our drug addicts were to suddenly go away, they'd be missed by their suppliers but Mexican addicts would still provide a nice income.

In fact, last month Attorney General Marisela Morales called for strengthening the strategy against “narcomenudeo”, or local drug dealing for domestic consumption, which she admitted is the real engine driving violence in the country, and was the motive for the murder of the 35 people in Veracruz.

That $300 billion dollars sounds bogus to me. Even taking into account the probability that US addict number of 7 million does not include marijuanna users.

Guilt. Just another psyop weapon.

64 posted on 10/09/2011 8:02:21 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: MetaThought

I do not support feeding drug addicts their drug....not by any means or measure. What is the matter with peoples heads who are promoting such a thing! Why not rather help them get clean period? That’s all the world needs now are cocaine addicts attempting to make us all believe they are great workers while they’re high on cocaine...and that’s not suppose to affect the work environment? Give me a break!


65 posted on 10/09/2011 9:16:23 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

You could just give it to them at cost, still basically pretty cheap.

You would do exactly the same thing to people who can’t do their job as you do today, fire them.

You’re letting your imagination run wild with the potential problems as opposed to actually looking at countries where it’s been tried.


66 posted on 10/09/2011 10:22:12 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: MetaThought

I have worked with a woman who has addictions...you will not convince me these are stable individuals....like time bombs....IMO.... So what happens if they can’t get their daily fix at the local give away clinic?......then what?

No, I don’t believe this is the answer for these people...the answer is to do what those who have successfully overcome their addictions and are living stable and free lives now....get off the drugs and don’t look back.


67 posted on 10/09/2011 10:30:03 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Atleast some of them can surely become stable individuals. No doubt there will be complications, but you can’t plan for the worst case scenario.

Thats the problem, though. Not everyone can or will get off drugs. Something like 0.1% of Americans are in prison on drug charges, and the percentage of addicts is probably atleast 1% or so. This is not just a lack of willpower.


68 posted on 10/10/2011 12:16:30 AM PDT by MetaThought
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Thanks EnglishCon.


69 posted on 10/10/2011 8:33:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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