CBS News: Brain Dead; Mexico: A Failed Country

CBS News sent a woman reporter/team down here to El Paso to "report" aboutt he situation in Juarez (across the Rio Grande from where this is being typed).


I happened to hear the CBS News RADIO (don't listen to CBS TV "news") reports from this reporter, and others, yesterday on the situation in Jurarez. CBS should be ashamed, but they have no shame.


First, you can review the archives of this blog (generally under the heading of: "Mexico, A Failed Country") to see that I have done MUCH (not even close) more "reporting on the situation in Juarez, in the past 2 YEARS, than CBS. CBS has pretty much ignored the developing crisis in Mexico--especially along the border--threatening to spill over into the United States. IN fact, although not so much in El Paso, there already has been substantial spill over into the U.S. (around the Phoenix area, for example). And the drug ccartels were threatening to attack the Juarez mayor and his family, AT HIS HOUSE IN EL PASO, when the cartels threatened the mayor--causing him to go "on the run" out of the city (although he and his family did not "run" to El Paso, at least according to reports). This was mere weeks ago.


You did not hear any of that from CBS News--at least in the national radio "news" I heard. Instead, the "reporter" down here reported on how the Mexican Army has sent troops to restore order in Juarez, and how that measure has apparently been a "success" at curbing the violence.


"Brain dead" is a kind phrase for that "report" from that female "reporter". The army was already in Juarez at the time the Juarez mayor fled the city--albeit that incident provoked the plan to have the Mexican army take over ALL police functions in Juarez from the defeated/corrupt Juarez police.


Well, were those additional measures a "success"? You be the judge. The big story in El Paso last week was that 9 people had been found in a mass grave in Juarez over the March 14 weekend--7 m4n and 2 women--murdered, with their hands tied behind their backs. That was only ten days ago.


Therefore, when the CBS 'reporter" said that the Mexican Army actions have been a "success", that is way too premature (from any perspective). It basically means that we have had maybe ONE weekend without a major atrocity of the drug cartels being discovered. Ask yourself whether CBS ever applied that measure of "successs" to Iraq. (lol).


This is "news" with an agenda. The consistent agenda of the mainstream news media has been to play down the expanding problems in Mexico. One "good" weekend in Juarez (assuming that their are no hidden graves just not yet fouond) does not change much. Only people as brain dead as the "reporter" sent down here by CBS could "report" otherwise.


I repeat what I have said for at least 2 years (with supporting evidence): Mexico is a failed country. The fact that the Mexican Army has had to take over POLICE functions in Juarez is evidence of that fact. The jury is still out on how "successful" this will be, in the long run.