No, that’s not the solution! Communism is actually the cause of today’s problems. Few Americans understand that Mexico has been, ever since its “Revolution” in the 1920s, technically a Socialist country. In any place where every aspect of life, both economic and social, is controlled by the government, corruption thrives because the government becomes the source of all power, all advancement, and in fact, all employment. This gives incredible power to bureaucrats, who can easily be bought, and it also results in the establishment of a kind of underground economy (witness the Soviet Union).
In the last few years, Mexicans have been electing the conservative party and part of the drug violence is attributable to this. The old cozy arrangements between the drug lords and drug couriers and local authorities got shaken up and destroyed because in many cases, these authorities were replaced with PAN members and also because there was a strong reform movement aimed at rejecting corruption. Many decent police officers, army members and local officials have died in the fight.
And it’s international. All the Communist governments of Latin America (such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela) make lots of money off of the drug trade and it is in fact a major source of income for them. So seeing it cut off in Mexico before it reaches the markets in the US is a serious threat, and believe me, they don’t take it lightly and they are very vicious.
Mexico doesn’t need a Communist revolution because it has already had one, and what you are looking at are its results. What Mexico really needs is what the current government is doing (liberalizing the economy and getting the state out of everything), more support from the US of the kind that Colombia received under Reagan and the Bushes — and for the US to stop using drugs.
I don’t see why, if it was possible to nearly halt the use of tobacco in the US, which was something that had far less serious physical and social effects, it is not possible for us to halt the use of drugs here. And remember, a lot of the decline in tobacco use wasn’t even due to laws, it was due to social pressure: it became uncool to smoke. So why do our movie stars and everybody else forming our “opinion leadership” act as if it is cool to use drugs?
That’s a US spiritual problem.
I agree 100 %—Thanks for the commentary—a Right wing—democratic Government might stop the violence. Maybe they need a King.