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Mexico swaps computers for guns
Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | March 28, 2007

Posted on 03/28/2007 12:45:24 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

MEXICO CITY — Police in the Mexican capital have kicked off a campaign to exchange guns for computers and other gifts in an attempt to reduce firearm deaths.

On the first day of the program in Tepito, a neighborhood known for drug dealing and street markets rife with contraband, officers collected 29 guns Tuesday and gave out several desktop computers along with packets of food and cash.

"Imagine how Mexico City would be if there were no guns," Mexico City Public Safety Secretary Joel Ortega said. "This is a barrio known for boxing champions, and now it has turned into a barrio where there were 32 murders last year."

The gun exchange program is part of a crackdown on crime by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, who has sent in thousands of police to tackle crime gangs in Tepito and other rough neighborhoods.

The campaign comes as President Felipe Calderon has led an offensive against crime on a national level, sending more 24,000 police and soldiers to areas where drug gangs have been fighting.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; border; borderops; mexarmy; mexico
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To: CPOSharky
From the headline, I was about to pack up my old computer and send it to Mexico City. Darn.

Me too. I've got a 1980 manufacture computer around, I'd swap for a 1980 manufacture gun

21 posted on 03/28/2007 5:36:46 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Being a political pundit is so easy anyone can do it, And does)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Doesn't the swap work the other way around?


22 posted on 03/28/2007 5:38:42 PM PDT by pointsal (q)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Imagine how Mexico City would be if there were no guns," Mexico City Public Safety Secretary Joel Ortega said. "

Imagine how Mexico City would be if Mexico City Public Safety Secretary Joel Ortega's bodyguards had no guns.

23 posted on 03/29/2007 5:32:51 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: SwinneySwitch; PAR35
Mexico swaps computers for guns

I've got a couple of old computers. What's the offer.

A plastic one shot .22 pistol.

They can do a little better than that:

Mexican Army FX-05 Xiuhcoatl [means *Fire Serpent* in the Nahuatl language] assault rifle:


24 posted on 03/29/2007 5:45:08 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: SwinneySwitch
Mexico swaps computers for guns

I don't care if they ARE giving away guns. They're not getting my computer.

25 posted on 03/29/2007 4:56:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: CPOSharky

Heh. I was thinking the same thing!


26 posted on 03/29/2007 5:00:23 PM PDT by B Knotts (Newt '08! FReepmail me to get on the Newt '08 Ping List)
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