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| Messico: 387 drug killings in October |
| 2008-10-19 |
| More than 300 have been killed as Mexico's security forces have intensified their war against drug traffickers during the past two weeks, media say. The death toll hit 387 people in the first two weeks of October with more than 3,800 deaths already recorded since the start of the year, Mexican newspapers reported Saturday. The government has announced a massive crackdown on drug cartels, trafficking and related violence by criminal networks in January 2007 and it has dispatched tens of thousands of soldiers across the country to do battle with heavily armed drug gangs. This month the government has adopted a new measure of leniency in the war against drugs as President Felipe Calderon has sent a proposal to Congress that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of illegal substances. Mexican officials have said they are going to ease up on pressure for users and increase facilities for the treatment of drug addicts instead of simply sending them to jail. These measures would help free human and financial resources to go after higher-level drug criminals. Mexico's drug war stretches back over more than two decades now but saw a startling uptick in August concentrated in the northern border regions, where cartels are fighting over key smuggling routes into the United States. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 THe MAHICO, etc. BOYZ had better think LONG, HARD, and CAREFULLY about what they're actually trying to achieve as per their present and future interests. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR - YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-19 20:04 |
| #4 Iff one believes that the 2008-2016 Post-Dubya POTUS Period = imposing SOCIALISM IN AMERIKA, IMO these Killings includ WARS FOR CONTROL OF THE BORDERS = OWG FREE TRADE ENTRY-EXIST POINTS BEOMS MOOT. IFF COLD WAR SOVIET = COMMIE BLOC TOTALITARIANISM IS ANY EXPAMPLE, SOCIALISM = GOVT HYPER-REGULATION = these guys are killing and destroying themselves for TEMPORARY/SHORT-TERM PROFITS FOLLOWED BY LONG-TERM STAGNATION AND DECLINISM FOR ALL CAMPS. Iff the COMMIES + SOCIALISTS still describe themselves as COLD WAR-STYLE "PARTIES OF WAR/REVOLUTION" = "PERMANENT STATE OF WAR", in the absence of any absolute or conclusive, etc. winner in the GWOT [WAR FOR OWG-NWO]bwtn the US-Allies versus Radicla Islamism and aligned [e.g. Commies-Maoists, Anarchists], the only way to impose and "justify" Anti-Democratic Socialism-Govtism in Amerika is to empower LONG-TERM OR PROTRACTIVE NATIONAL-GLOBAL ECON MORASS AND CHAOS, STAGFLATION STAGCESSION AND STAGPRESSION, etc. FOR MINIMA OF SEVERAL DECADES!? * HENRY FONDA stars in "THE DATES {Middle East] OF WRATH"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-19 20:00 |
| #3 Narco-traffickers, Are awash with Billions in $$$ CASH $$$.. Over time Our Gubmint Officials/workers might be tempted by that loose cash if a family emergency comes up they may be picked off by the Narco-Traffickers. Most of our Polititions will always be tempted for a hand out of cash.... Plus The Narco-Traffickers are experts at using both Bribes [Pile'o'Cash] and Absolute Violence to achieve their bloody ends.. Plus A current Sub-Rosa Culture War between the North Americano Gringo "Squatters" and the righteous True Race of Indigenous Peoples [La Raza]. Contemplate those tremendous forces and how they play out in our National domestic scene. Recall that both parties raced each other to the bottom with the Politics of a FAST-TRACKING....A FULL-BLOWN, PELL-MELL, NAFTA RACE to DESTROY OUR BORDERS! BTW Citizen did you git a chance to mull over NAFTA? Did you git a chance to VOTE? Hey Not To Worry Citizens, just look at the ROSTER of names in the House of Reps and Senate; And when the NAFTA ENEMA Was Jammed Up Yourn Arse, Be Grateful for the Speed and Thank Fast Tracking, Cause from now on, you're gonna git FAST TRACKED MANY TIMES A DAY! *************************************************** Ladies and gentlemen: git mo Ammo if'in you don't have an ole Betsy.. better git one and pratice a bit! Grrrr |
| Posted by: RD 2008-10-19 18:45 |
| #2 "...cartels are fighting over key smuggling routes into the United States." Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the Democratically-controlled Congress is focusing on getting out the message that Joe the Plumber is actually "Samuel Joseph", not "Joseph Samuel". Details at 11. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-10-19 17:48 |
| #1 QUAGMIRE! erp. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-10-19 16:52 |