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I am guessing that this news will hit Mexico hard.
Two Drug Slayings in Mexico Rock U.S. Consulate
LA UNIÓN, Mexico — Gunmen believed to be linked to drug traffickers shot a pregnant American consulate worker and her husband to death in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Juárez over the weekend, leaving their baby wailing in the back seat of their car, the authorities said Sunday. The gunmen also killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two young children.
I too count my lucky stars – every day – that I’m living in Costa Rica and not in Mexico, or anywhere else for that matter.
Scott
juarez is a war zone. it is controlled by narcos. and they don’t want the US gov’t sticking their nose into their business. hundreds of people are brutally murdered every year in that border town — some were decapitated or disemboweled. narco gangs are brutal and if america wasn’t so drug addicted, well, there wouldn’t be this mess. and like scott, i am living in costa rica and not mexico, where i still own property, because it’s too dangerous to live there, even in the baja.
Sadly, the media has not really reported on the total extent of the executions and assassinations in Mexico. The army and police are out-gunned and out-maned; even with U.S. arms sales to Mexico. Then there is the issue of corruption and association with the cartels by officials, police and military. If you look outside the box, is it really the cartel hit men, or, police and/or army personnel, under contract or threat! Just follow the money trail. Mexico is on the brink of a new government, a cartel government. In short, the Mexican government is unwilling and unable to surpress the cartel’s trade. The U.S. spends millions of dollars every year, assisting Mexico, in an attempt to surpress the cartels, without success. Costa Rica is a paradise, unfortunately, it has to be neighbored by Mexico.
Legalize drugs already. Just like when they repealed prohibition and the killing stopped. Follow the money and then cut it off.
Juarez had over 4,000 murders last year, which equates to 400 murders/100,000. That has to be the highest murder rate in the world.
it has the highest murder rate of any city outside a war zone. juarez is its own war zone. the mexicans i know will do anything to avoid having to go there, and most have gotten their families out of there to a safer place. but there are narco gangs all through mexico. my friends in the baja travel the roads with armed bodyguards now. very sad.
how can you have a war on drugs when our own gov’t was involved in dealing them? anyone who’s read Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance knows how pervasive that involvement was in the 70’s and 80’s. who knows about today? america’s love affair with mind altering substances goes back a hundred years. if there wasn’t a demand, the supply would dwindle. and if it weren’t a multi-billion-dollar industry, they would’ve legalized it but the system feeds on the crimes committed related to the drugs — from the hospitals, to the prisons, to the lawyers, etc. drugs feed a whole industry that would be hurt if they were legal.
The U.S. will never win the “War On Drugs.” The term “War On” is always used, however, no war is ever won. Some of the U.S. States have decriminalized marijuana use, for medical purposes. Mendesino County, California, has a thriving legal marijuana grow, for personal use only, CNBC recently had a one hour special on that matter. The U.S. should adapt the european philosophy on marijuana, however, that may not happen; because thousands have earned income from the so called war on drugs. There are thousands of veterans who utilize marijuana, for medical purposes, and, their service-connected disabilities. These men and women have paid the price for service to the U.S., yet, under current federal law, they are criminals, by using marijuana to mitigate service-connected disabilities. Why are U.S. citizens not demanding to know why such large drug shipments are being allowed to enter the U.S. from Mexico? They should start by asking the CIA, NSA and the U.S. Border Patrol.
There are conspiracy theories regarding shadow governments. I do not know enough to subscribe to any one of them but I do know enough to be highly distrustful of the U.S. government and I oppose nearly everything that government does just on principle alone.
Any latin american country which has had the misfortune of being closely associated with the US by choice or otherwise has suffered a good deal of violence and poverty. I am happy that Costa Rica has kept under the radar with regards to the United States. This has enabled our adoptive country to live under socialism in peace. I would not choose to live anywhere else south of the Rio Grand.but you forget that CR is the highway for drugs coming from South America and going to mexico and then the US. every few days there is some raid where they bust pot and cocaine smugglers who were making their way north through the mangrove swamps. many of these busts end in violence. sure, it’s not happening in my neighborhood, but on both southern coasts there is lots of narcotrafficking going on.
More reason to stay in the mountains of the beautiful central valley….Coasts seem to attract mosquitos, crocs, dengue, drug dealers, thieves, extreme heat and humidity and a lot of wealthy gringos who think paradise requires sandy beaches, an ocean and coconut trees.
Many states are now entertaining the idea of legalizing pot as a tax base. The preponderance of resaerch confirms that pot is no more harmful to our health than alcohol or tobacco. With 1-2% of the US popultion in prison = 3.3-6.6 million and 10% of those in for possession of narcotics as opposed to trafficking = 330,000-660,000. Assuming the average of $43,000/year to house these inmates X 2 when considering court and enforcemet costs, that’s $2.6-$5.2 trillion. Two years of eliminating this would eliminate th national debt. Just a thought.
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