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Señor AMLO, it's time to turn, turn, turn...: Mexico's leftist president needs to start getting wise about all the crime inundating his country
American Thinker ^ | 08/23/2022 | Silvio Canto Jr.

Posted on 08/23/2022 8:54:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Down in Mexico, the word is homicides.   Unfortunately, there are too many of them. 
 
This is from Alfredo Corchado:  
 
As of Thursday, 128,923 homicides had been registered under [President Andrés Manuel] López Obrador, with more than two years left in his term, which ends in December 2024. This compares with 156,066 under the six-year term of Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico’s former ruling party that for 71 years governed promising paz y tranquilidad, peace and tranquility.   

 

Homicides under López Obrador have also surpassed the number during the government of his detested foe, Calderón, whose government recorded an estimated 120,463 homicides from 2007 to 2012. The numbers were compiled by The Dallas Morning News, using data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico’s official census bureau.

 

Calderón had declared war on drug cartels just after he won the 2006 election by a hair. Election observers approved the vote, but López Obrador called it illegitimate, leaving Calderón without a strong mandate. Critics maintain Calderón’s war was an effort to legitimize his weak presidency by rallying the country through what now seems like a never-ending war that’s cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
I'll let the Mexico experts compare President López Obrador to President Calderón.  I will simply add that this kind of killing is tearing up Mexico and will have an impact on everything, especially the economy.   

It will also send a few more people up north and that's not something we can handle.

As for the economy, it's hard to open your store if criminals are burning cars or transportation vehicles. Security is a must, and sections of Mexico are not secure.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amlo; bloggers; crime; illegals; mexico
As for President López Obrador, he needs to reconsider his approach. He started out by preaching “Hugs, Not Bullets” or, an approach to cartel violence that focuses on so-called root causes, such as poverty and injustice.
1 posted on 08/23/2022 8:54:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He can just keep shipping his problems north of the border, can’t he?


2 posted on 08/23/2022 8:55:03 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

bttt


3 posted on 08/23/2022 8:58:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Steely Tom

RE: He can just keep shipping his problems north of the border, can’t he?

THAT’s THE PLAN. And there ain’t no Donald Trump to force him to enfore the “Remain in Mexico” policy any longer.


4 posted on 08/23/2022 9:00:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Always remember to use the full formal title for Mexico’s communist leader: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Pinche Puto Pindejo.

Thank you!


5 posted on 08/23/2022 9:27:07 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

And that doesn’t even start to use any applicable pronouns!


6 posted on 08/23/2022 9:32:05 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: SeekAndFind

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7 posted on 08/23/2022 9:32:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chanece favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Homicides are only a symptom of the real problem - pandemic corruption.

Corruptionary
8 posted on 08/23/2022 9:35:24 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: llevrok

LOL!!!

I think he goes by cabrón/cabrona depending on his gender-fluid feeling of the day.


9 posted on 08/23/2022 9:40:58 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: BenLurkin

As the first non-PRI president in a long while, will he also retire a multi-squillionaire like the others?


10 posted on 08/23/2022 11:46:44 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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