Mexico, A Failed Country: Massacre in Juarez (Ignored By Mainstream Media, As Usual)

Yes, this is today's news dispatch from El Paso, almost on the front lines of the WAR taking place in Juarez, Mexico. Juarez, Mexico is right across the Rio Grande from El Paso--less than 5 miles from where I am typing this.


For the past two years or more, I have been regularly posting stories from El Paso, about Juarez and Mexico, on "The Maverick Conservative" (my Google blog), under the general heading of "Mexico, a Failed Country". It is getting worse--proving me right, as usual.


Today's story in El Paso was about the MASSACRE in Juarez. The El Paso reports were that "at least" 17 people were killed, when a group of people were lined up and shot. More than 17 were shot, indicating that the death toll may have gone higher.


This is a little bit worse than usual, but only a little. For two years or so there has been a WAR going on in Juarez between drug cartels, and members of drug cartels. That is a separate problem from the problem of the unsolved murders of HUNDREDS of young women--dumped in burial grounds along the border after they are killed.


You can look at the archives of "The Maverick Conservative" for entry after entry about the drug war killings in Juarez. They now total in the thousands in the past two years. Yet, if you rely on the mainstream media for your "news", you know little about it. The "Anti-American, Despicable Associated Press" (always use complete, official name n first reference) regularly reports CIVILIAN (not American) deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq--often seeming to note almost every death in that ongoing war. Meanwhile, Juarez is now MORE dangerous than Baghdad, but you would not know it from the despicable AP. Why are deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan--thousands of miles away--more important than thousands of deaths occurring within 5-20 miles of El Paso (if not closer, since the El Paso border is a matter of a hundred feet or so from the Juarez border--basically ni the center of the Rio Grande). Yes, I do believe it has something to do with the Anti-American, anti-war agenda of the despicable AP (and the rest of the mainstream media), along with an agenda in favor of "open borders" with Mexico (talk about INSANITY, but that is really the position of leftist Democrats like Obama--at least before Obama realized that the deteriorating situation in Mexico and the recession made encouragement of illegal immigration impossible). Thousands of people have been murdered in JUAREZ ALONE in the past two years. That does not even include other border cities and towns, or the rest of Mexico.


What remains amazing is that this incredible level of violence has not YET spread to El Paso, except for one or two isolated instances. Yes, people from El Paso (quite a few now) have DIED in Juarez. But El Paso did not even suffer its first murder until February, and that was an ordinary murder (unrelated to Juarez, as almost all--relatively minor, in comparison with some other cities in the U.S., El Paso violence has been unrelated to Juarez. Juarez victims have been fairly often rushed to El Paso hospitals, maintly the county hospital, but the costly extra security (for people like injured Juarez policemen) has not yet been justified by actual attacks from the ldrug cartels in Juarez. Obviously, the spreading of Juarez violence to El Paso remains a very real danger. The mayor even has a house here, and the drug cartel threatened to come after him in El Paso when he fled Juarez in terror a few months ago.


I have not seen any mainstream media reports on the massacre in Juarez (for example, on Yahoo News, which regularly uses the despicable AP. I did see a report on Fox News, while surfing (don't regularly watch), and Fox News has often provided more coverage of Juarez and Mexican violence. I find it hard to believe t hat the mainstream media can ignore this massacre, and maybe they have not (I do not seek out mainstream media "news"). I am pretty sure, however, that they will continue to play down the deteriorating situation in Juarez, and in Mexico.


If you are deluded that you are getting objective "news" from the mainstream media, you are mistaken. I will continue to give my periodic updates, but the reality is that I could do a new story every day (like the AP tends to do in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is getting that bad along the Mexican border, even if the really bad stuff has not YET spread to places like El Paso. Phoenix may have suffered more from the problem spreading across the border.