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2008-12-08 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-08 13:26|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Probably time to invade Mexico.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-12-08 14:10|| 2008-12-08 14:10|| Front Page Top

#2 QUAGMIRE!

Posted by OldSpook 2008-12-08 14:44|| 2008-12-08 14:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Iraq, Thailand and Chicago are looking downright peaceful compared to Mexico these days.

Where is our fence again?

Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-08 14:48|| 2008-12-08 14:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Mexico enjoys tourism from the USA and Canada.

Does anyone know if tourism has started to drop off?

Posted by MarkZ 2008-12-08 15:01|| 2008-12-08 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Probably time to invade Mexico.

WHO WANTS THEM?

Posted by Rednek Jim 2008-12-08 15:09|| 2008-12-08 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Lead story in today's Arizona Daily Star concerns tourist scarcity in Nogales, Sonora (60 miles south).

Posted by borgboy 2008-12-08 15:09|| 2008-12-08 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Border tourism has been dropping for 10 years. It's next to nothing now because of the crime. Even the State Dept has issued warnings.

Posted by ed 2008-12-08 15:16|| 2008-12-08 15:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's an interesting stat:
A U.S State Department report on non-natural deaths of U.S. citizens abroad says that 128 Americans were victims of homicides or executions in Mexico between Jan. 1, 2005 and Dec. 31, 2007, and that a majority of these murders took place in Mexican cities located on the southern border of the United States.

All told, during the period in question, 667 Americans were killed in Mexico by non-natural causes, including by drowning, auto accidents, and suicides, according to the report. It is unclear how accurate these numbers are, however, because the State Department says the report is based solely on cases reported by American citizens to our posts abroad.

Posted by ed 2008-12-08 15:25|| 2008-12-08 15:25|| Front Page Top

#9 In 1971 I was stationed at Beumont and we went to Juarez frequently. It was surreal how similar it was to stepping outside of 3rd. field in Saigon. Drugs girls and even the language.
I believe the army put Juarez off limits several years ago.

Posted by bman 2008-12-08 16:25|| 2008-12-08 16:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Nobody on this board has enough money to get ME south of the border, much less with my family. I'd like to break relations with Mex and seal the damned border. Nothing coming, nothing going except their invading nationals getting their asses literally kicked back into Mex.

Screw Mex. I wish the Rio Grande was 500 miles wide. The more of them that kill each other in drug fights, the better. It's that many fewer of them to come up here and cause trouble.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-08 16:55|| 2008-12-08 16:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Meanwhile, from community organizers: "Building a border fence, tougher immigration laws and resources that could allow local law enforcement agencies to target immigrants are all symptoms of a bias against Hispanics that must change, Rosa Rosales" president of LULAC said in El Paso this weekend.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-12-08 17:19|| 2008-12-08 17:19|| Front Page Top

#12 From the Juarez section of the El Paso Times: Juárez city officials, who earlier this year launched billboards in El Paso and other U.S. cities in an effort to lure visitors, insist that tourists are not targeted in the slayings.

"It's not Iraq," said Esquivel, the mercado vendor.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-12-08 17:24|| 2008-12-08 17:24|| Front Page Top

#13 "'It's not Iraq,' said Esquivel, the mercado vendor."

You're right.

Iraq's much safer.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-12-08 18:45|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-12-08 18:45|| Front Page Top

#14 "It's not Iraq," said Esquivel, the mercado vendor.

Dunno if I want to to Iraq as a tourist.

Posted by Pappy 2008-12-08 18:46|| 2008-12-08 18:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Pappy - well, up in Kurdistan, being a tourist has been non-insane (definitely on the aggressive adventuresome edge, but non-insane) for a few years, believe it or not. Some day .... north-central Iraq and the Shi'a holy cities will be very nice tourist spots, actually (along with Ur and Babylon, notwithstanding the Ba'ath-era "restorations" there).

Judging by radio ads and offers from a San Diego perspective, tourism in northern Baja is dying. It's really sad, actually - obviously the folks working at resorts and restaurants in TJ and Rosarito Beach are not part of the drug wars, but regular folks working hard in a sector that has boomed in the last 15 years or so.

I recall when Nuevo Laredo was going down the drain (not sure if that was the low-point, but it got pretty dramatic) in '05 or '06, and the reports and State travel warnings read a lot like Diyala or parts of Anbar. We laughed about it, and then spit in anger when we next read a story about a border barrier STILL being haggled over or compared to the Berlin Wall.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-12-08 21:25|| 2008-12-08 21:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Verlaine's on the money - we get a a lot of ads now, telling us of the "bargains" and "friendly hosts" in Baja. Quite a shame actually. It is a beautiful country in Baja, once you get past the border, with great seaports, good food, nice people, and absolutely no f'n way that I would go there right now

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-08 22:01|| 2008-12-08 22:01|| Front Page Top

#17 This article reminds me of the first verse of the Bob Dylan song:

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Easter-time too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outa you

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-12-08 22:07|| 2008-12-08 22:07|| Front Page Top

#18 There's seems to be no end to the K street thieves and their Congressional buddies who are ripping off our soventry....

Mexican Mayhem Continues Unabated thanks in part To the rotten Congressmen and women who think they can endlessly rip off America!

They are Traitors and Paracites and they countinue to excersize their in order to destroy the USA.

A POX on all of them~!!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-12-08 22:56|| 2008-12-08 22:56|| Front Page Top

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