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 veggie
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 Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks 
#9095063 - 10/18/08 04:47 AM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks
October 18, 2008 - AFP
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Almost 400 people have died in the past two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related violence.
The killings include six people lined up and shot against a wall with a written warning promising a similar fate to all "rats", and five others shot dead in a house where a ganglord's corpse was found in a freezer.
The death toll this year has crossed 3,800 despite a massive state crackdown launched two years, including the deployment of some 36,000 soldiers across the country.
The drug wars, ongoing for years in Mexico, has seen a spiral in violence since August.
Newspaper tolls, published daily, show 387 people were killed in the first two weeks of October, and more than 3,800 deaths recorded since the start of the year.
The killings are concentrated in the northern border regions, where cartels are fighting over key trafficking routes into the United States.
The main cartel in Tijuana is led by the Arellano Felix brothers, and is battling other groups for control of the strategic border city across from San Diego, California.
Further east along the border, in Ciudad Juarez and across Chihuahua state, the Juarez cartel, led by the Carillo Fuentes familly, is fighting with the Sinaloa gang, led by fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Deserters from both sides are also involved.
Authorities blame many attacks on drug traffickers, and evidence signalled drug gang involvement in recent killings.
One of the six shot dead against a wall on Thursday in volatile Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, managed to blame a drug cartel for the killings before he died.
He said he had been accused by the killers of selling drugs for a rival gang.
The assassins had fired more than 100 bullets and left a note at the scene of the crime, warning: "Message for all rats, this will continue."
The previous day a soldier and four delinquents were killed in Tijuana, in a house where the body of a kidnapped and murdered gang member lay in the freezer.
Some blame increased Mexican cocaine consumption for the spike in violence. Until recently, cocaine was mainly exported to the United States.
Mexico "is no longer only a country of drug transit to the United States, but has become an important consumer market," federal prosecutor Eduardo Medina Mora said recently.
National drug consumption rose by around 30 percent between 2002 and 2008, and by almost 100 percent for cocaine, the prosecutor said, citing a federal investigation.
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EntheogenicPeace
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Re: Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks [Re: veggie]
#9095811 - 10/18/08 01:07 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Although I don't have any statistics to pull up off the top of my head, I'm gonna guess it is basically an economic problem: the government pays people far less to fight organized crime than organized crime pays people to commit it. As long as the economic inequality remains so sharp, & the poverty rates so high, there is virtually no chance to defeat organized crime. It reveals as complete propaganda the U.S. government talking about sending hundreds of millions of dollars of police/military aid to fight Mexican drug cartels when they know all along that all it will do is increase the violence, but have no effect of disrupting and/or destroying organized crime.
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 fall
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Re: Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#9105470 - 10/20/08 07:59 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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How about legalizing and taxing all those drugs? They would be cheap enough there would be no point for a black market... and the major source of income for these people who think its alright to kill would be gone. Take out their funding, eventually they'll run out of bullets and a reason to fight.
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Re: Mexican drug wars intensify, killing nearly 400 in two weeks [Re: fall]
#9105691 - 10/20/08 08:43 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
How about legalizing and taxing all those drugs? They would be cheap enough there would be no point for a black market... and the major source of income for these people who think its alright to kill would be gone. Take out their funding, eventually they'll run out of bullets and a reason to fight.
So, we should just surrender to the enemy? Give up? Tuck our tail and admit defeat? Are you French!? /sarcasm
You hit the proverbial nail on the head... but there is too much money, for both sides, for the Government to ever legalize drugs. Besides, the Government would never admit that it had been wrong on something this damaging to society. However, you are correct, legalizing all drugs would certainly fix the problem.
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