who said they were civilized?
Posted on 11/15/2018 5:36:27 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Some 37,000 people in Mexico are categorized as “missing” by the government. The vast majority are believed to be dead, victims of the country’s spiraling violence that has claimed more than 250,000 lives since 2006. The country’s murder rate has more than doubled to 26 per 100,000 residents, five times the U.S. figure.
Because the missing aren’t counted as part of the country’s official murder tally, it is likely Mexico’s rate itself is higher.
The killing and the number of missing grow each year. Last year, 5,500 people disappeared, up from 3,400 in 2015. Mexico’s murders are up another 18% through September this year.
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This time around, the horror in Mexico is bigger and its causes more complex. Many of the disappeared in recent years are believed to be the victims of violence unleashed by criminal gangs fighting to control drug routes and other lucrative businesses such as extortion, kidnapping and the theft of gasoline from pipelines, often with the complicity of police forces, government officials say.
“It’s a crisis of civilization in Mexico,” said Javier Sicilia, a poet and victims’ advocate whose son was murdered in 2011. “It’s diabolical—an unprecedented perversity to disappear human beings and erase any trace of them from the world.”
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Nancy Gocher, spokeswoman for Serapaz, a group that helps coordinate survivor and search groups throughout the country, said they believe only four in 10 disappearances are reported to authorities. Michael Chamberlin, who consults for several human-rights organizations, said the total number of disappeared could be four times the official figure.
The main reason for not reporting is fear of reprisals by judicial authorities, criminals, and police, especially municipal police, who in many parts of Mexico collude with criminal gangs.
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And the Democrats want to import that sh!t here.
I didn't read it that way. I read it as a warning shot, telling us to hurry up and build the wall.
That’s Nothing..we have 65 MILLION DEAD BABIES!!!
I don’t have any sympathy.
And we don’t need them to bring their social issues here. We have enough of our own.
Wow...it's a good thing those folks aren't allowed to own guns../s
When an illegal comes into the US, are they counted as missing in Mexico? If so, their figures a way, way off! About 20,000,000 off.
:) Works for me...
Actually, we are absorbing their criminals fleeing prosecution.
But all this can’t be true because they have extremely strict gun control.
Wouldn’t help. Everyone is corrupt in Mexico.
We should always make it clear that the drug problems we have in our country, and all the dead people in Mexico, is caused by the dimocraps and their god, the government....
Socialism/communism always ends with a handful of wealthy and the rest peasants and or criminal/black marketers
...kind of what they are attempting to turn the US into...if they haven’t already succeeded?
They would just replace them with more of the same. It’s like the Californians who escape the screwed up state, but take the screwed up attitudes with them. It’s ingrained.
Also, the cartels have the weapons and the people don’t.
Mexico has always had a very high murder rate. Back in 1968, when the US Congress was passing the horrid 1968 Gun Control Act, someone pointed out, in a Letter to the Editor, that more people were murdered in Mexico with Knives than persons in the USA with guns.
The Editor’s response was “It was because of the ‘MACHO’ culture in Mexico, and we did not have that here.”
Well, it’s here.
I don’t believe they have a 2nd Amendment so there would not be much they can do.
who said they were civilized?
Liberia started with a muh Constitution very similar to that of the United States. Abstract ideas like liberty, property rights and the rule of law don’t mean much outside of certain population groups. People make Constitutions, not the other way around.
But Mexico is not a sh—h-le country, right?
And the dims don’t want the border wall built.
“Mexico needs a civil war more than we do.”
Actually, they need the NFL! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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