Yes, this is yet another dispatch from the front lines of the drug cartel war happening right across the Rio Grande from El Paso, in Juarez, Mexico--basically 5 miles from where I am writing this. For two years, I have been chronicling the deteriorating situation in Mexico under the general heading of "Mexico, a Failed Country."
The situation has taken yet another turn for the worse here. As I have told you, Juarez, Mexico has become perhaps the most dangerous city in the world. THOUSANDS (more than 3 thousand) people have been murdered in the past 2 years in Juarez, and the pace is accelerating. That is apart from the ongoing series of hundreds of unsolved murders of young women.
The news in El Paso today was about a disturbing new kind of development. As I have told you (see archives of my Google blog, "The Maverick Conservative", and Newsvine.com article), it has been somewhat amazing that the drug war in Juarez has generally NOT spread across the Rio Grande to El Paso. As I told you, that could not last, and today's story indicates it is changing.
A 30 year old man was kidnapped (routine now in Mexico) in Horizon City, TEXAS, and found dead in Juarez, Mexico. That is really disturbing. Horizon City is part of El Paso County, and part of the metropolitan area of El Paso. One of my brothers, and a sister-in-law, live there. For all practical purposes, this kidnapping occurred in El Paso, and obviously represents a a real warning that the Juarez violence might be about to spread to El Paso in a much more major way than has been the case.
Meanwhile, President Obama and the mainstream media are pretty much ignoring the really disturbing situation along the Mexican border. We long ago lost control of illegal immigration, as the "elite" establishment in this country has refused to do anything about it. That includes the Republican establishment--John McCain, President Bush and the rest. But President Obama has taken ignoring the Mexican border to a new level.
President Obama is treating as a "crisis" a proposed health care "plan" that will not even be substantially implemented until 2013. That will merely increase the problems from a true "crisis": the DEFICIT and accumulating debt. Rather than address the real "crises" brewing, Obama has gone off on this crusade about health care that is absurd. The situation along the Mexican border is a crisis i the making. Obama, like Nero, fiddles (figuratively). He is more interested in denying that his health care "plan" will cover illegal immigrants, despite the House defeat of a specific provision to exclude illegal immigrants, than he is in addressing the developing real crisis on the Mexican border.
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