Thread: Mexican Protests over Drug War Violence

AFP: Tired of violence, Mexicans ready for mass protests

"We are sick and tired of you politicians... because in your struggle for power you have torn asunder the fabric of the nation," Sicilia wrote in an open letter released Monday.

"You have been incapable of creating the consensus that the nation needs to find unity," he wrote.

Sicilia derided President Felipe Calderon's massive anti-drug sweep, launched in late 2006, as a "poorly designed, poorly managed, and poorly led" affair that "has left the country in a state of emergency."

In all honesty, it's about damn time that someone there steps up and draws attention to the fact that the government officials in Mexico has been in cahoots with the cartels for decades. That it took a well known person there losing his son is pretty sad and almost makes you wonder "What the first 34,000+ weren't enough?"

But with that said.....some of the article is flat out nutz

In an interview with the daily La Reforma, Sicilia said it was time for the government to negotiate with the country's leading drug cartels.

Mexico has to live with the drug traffickers, he said. If the government "is not conducting the war successfully, then let's go for negotiations. Wars end in agreements, after all... and this is going to end in a pact, sooner or later," Sicilia said.

WTF? Cut a deal with them? As if the cartels are not a scourge for all involved?

And then this:

Why, he asked, does Mexico have to "protect the back" of the United States, a country "that is not helping us at all."

Such bullshit. Really? Where the fuck would Mexico be if the US weren't actively accepting (at the highest levels of government) every poor soul that Mexico sends across the border? Not helping? FFS, if we actively denied illegal immigration from all countries Mexico would be the hardest affected simply based on numbers alone. That country would literally starve itself to death trying to feed and care for its citizens. Yet it survives. Why? Because the US accepts Mexico's illegal immigrants (as well as some other countries) implicitly if not tacitly.

What are Mexico's top three forms of Revenue? Oil Exports. Foreign "Receipts" and Tourism. What are these foreign receipts? That is all of the money, to the tune of billions of dollars per year, that Mexico's citizenry send back home.

But we do nothing for them. Sure we don't.

This smacks of the same bullshit that good ole Prez Calderone came to the states flapping his gums about regarding the terrible state of immigration (illegal) in Arizona and some other places. However, mums the word if you ask him about Mexico's own policy towards its southern neighbors.

Fucking hypocrisy.

I say we take over the whole thing. Split it up into 4 different states and call it a day.

Originally Posted by Kraker Jak

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

I say we take over the whole thing. Split it up into 4 different states and call it a day.

Agree, I could finally go to cancun without a passport or hepititis shot....

I dunno... not that there wouldn't be upsides (like, one of the states could be called New New Mexico!) but that plan sorta breaks both ways. For example, I'm not sure everyone would be happy welcoming the 8 new Mexican senators (and a hundred-odd new Mexican congressmen) to the Capitol.

Cheers,


AetheLove

Originally Posted by AetheLove

I dunno... not that there wouldn't be upsides (like, one of the states could be called New New Mexico!) but that plan sorta breaks both ways. For example, I'm not sure everyone would be happy welcoming the 8 new Mexican senators (and a hundred-odd new Mexican congressmen) to the Capitol.

Cheers,


AetheLove

Shit we already have the bad shit. We might as well just take everything else. The upside far outweighs the bad. Think how easy the border would be to control when its pushed all the way back to the panama canal.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

I dunno... not that there wouldn't be upsides (like, one of the states could be called New New Mexico!) but that plan sorta breaks both ways. For example, I'm not sure everyone would be happy welcoming the 8 new Mexican senators (and a hundred-odd new Mexican congressmen) to the Capitol.

Cheers,


AetheLove

What are you trying to say AE? I am pretty sure that the ones we'd pick up from Mexico would be no better or worse than the ones we've already got. I'd just be another accent to pay attention to. Shenanigans? Probably very similar.