Mexico: Drug Wars Continue

"On Monday night, emergency medical technicians in Juarez, from the Red Cross,  responded to one of the many recent group execution style killings in Juarez.  Four men were killed in the shooting".

 

"Tonight, the EMT's are facing death threats if they continue to respond to these drug shootings."A few of the EMT's were identified by name in threat."

The above is an approximate quote from tonight's story on KTSM TV in El Paso (Juarez, Mexico is our sister city right across the Rio Grande from El Paso).

 

There is a similar story almost every day in El Paso, while the ongoing story is pretty much blacked out on AOL "News", and in the mainstream media. As I have repeatedly said, Mexico is a failed country, almost spinning out of control as the violent drug cartels dominate major parts of the country--especially along the border with the U.S.A.

 

More than 800 people have been killed in these drug cartel killings in Juarez, Mexico since the beginning of this year.   That is even worse than Obama's Chicago, and probably not much better--if better at all--than Baghdad, Iraq.

 

Some of you may wonder how I can call Obama the most dangerous (to the country) Presidential candidate I have ever seen, including George McGovern, and still express major reservations about John McCain.

 

Well, this is why.  McCain appeared in Las Cruces, New Mexico at a town hall meeting.  That is some 35 miles from where I am typing this.  Forget the media (and Obama) "negative" campaigning about what McCain said in Las Cruces  (as I have said often, the PRIMARY "negative" campaigners in the country today are the members of the mainstream media).  The most disturbing thing McCain said was about Mexico (especially disturbing when McCain comes from Arizona, and should know better).

 

McCain strongly supported the idea of giving Mexico a billion dollars to fight the drug cartels.  Now you might read the above and decide that we HAVE to do something (besides CONTROL the border).  That may be right.  IF we can control how it is used (Mexico is a CORRUPT country), the billion dollars would probably be money well spendt. 

 

However, McCain PRAISED President Calderon for his efforts to fight the drug cartels in Mexico, and to control the border from that side--as if those efforts were having SUCCESS.  They are not.  Jurarez, Mexico is in chaos--chaos being repeated all along the Mexican border, and even in the interior of Mexico. The police in Juarez are either corrupt or in FEAR.  That ARMY has had to be called in to try to control what the police cannot, and it is unclear how corrupt the army is (saying they are better than the police may be damning with faint praise).

 

McCain seemed clueless as to how bad things really are.  As I have said repeatedly, Mexico is a FAILED COUNTRY.  I have lived in this area, with minor breaks, for 48 years.  It is WORSE than I have ever seen it. Mexico has always been a corrupt country, with a society based on "mordida" (bribery) and corruption.  The country has always been the kind of country, with rich exploiting the poor, that leftist Democrats falsely represent the U.S. to be.  It is ironic that Mexico has a long tradition of LEFTIST rule, that has failed to benefit the poor (leftists are the same everywhere). 

 

Can you argue that I am too defeatist, and that the only way to have "success" in Mexico is to be optimistic, like McCain, and support the elements in Mexico that we think can restore order?   Maybe.  My own opinion, as I state above, is that McCain is clueless as to how bad things really are in Mexico right now.  Nor am I confident that a false optimism is really the right approach, even if McCain is not actually clueless, but merely trying to encourage the right people to take the right action in the Mexican government.  To me, it is obvious that the Mexican government is more interested in USING the U.S. as an outlet for their problems (such as basically encouraging illegal immigration of its poor), rather than real "reform". 

 

Sure, the Mexican government wants to keep control, and not let the drug cartels take over the country.  At the same time, many in that government are surely in the pay/control of those same drug cartels.  I wish I believed McCain had a realistic view of Mexico, Meico's problems, and illegal immigration.  I don't.

 

And Obama is WORSE.