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Civil War in Mexico.
16 hours ago ago from Crucis' Court
To paraphrase Bill Shakespeare, a Civil War is a Civil War no matter what name is used. I've posted a number of times in the last year about the violence in Mexico. When a local church group proposed sending some of their youth to Mexico on a mission trip, I strongly advised against it. It's just too dangerous a territory for the innocent and unaware to travel. The American Spectator supports my opinion in an article published Friday. What ...
Related contentMexico: Drug Cartels Tighten Grip; Mexico Becoming 'Narco-State'
10 hours ago ago from Marijuana.com
DRUG CARTELS TIGHTEN GRIP; MEXICO BECOMING 'NARCO-STATE' Rising Lawlessness Echoes State Of '90s-Era Colombia MEXICO CITY - For months, the leaders of Tancitaro had held firm against the drug lords battling for control of this central Mexican town. Then one morning, after months of threats and violence from the traffickers, they finally surrendered. Before dawn, gunmen kidnapped the elderly fathers of the town administrator and the ...
Related contentPublic Lecture at UIS: Mexican Drug Violence
13 hours ago ago from Springfield Moms, Dads, and Grandparents Area Family Resources for Springfield and Central Illinois
Mar 11 7:30 pm Ricardo Ainslie, a native of Mexico City and a US citizen, will discuss Mexico’s drug war cartels and its implications for the United States, drawing heavily on interviews with Mexican government sources and American drug-enforcement experts. He has worked in the epicenter of this war, Ciudad Juarez, the city of 1.5 million across the border from El Paso, Texas, where in 2009 alone over 2,660 ...
Related contentAn Interview with Calderon
2 hours ago ago from History of Latin America II
This week, the Washington Post published an interview with Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon. Interviewer Lally Weymouth questioned Calderon on some issues facing Mexico, both domestically and internationally. More often than not, the two are directly related. One issue that Calderon wants to focus his energy on is Mexico's drug war. In relation to the US, Calderon recognizes that the US has been very helpful, but that most of the weapons ...
Related contentJuarez Is Our Future
23 hours ago ago from The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Excellent piece by Ed Vulliamy in the Guardian UK . He's writing a book about Juarez and the Drug War there and tries to sum it all up: ... certain themes are inescapable: this brutality defines a war very much of its time, the first 21st-century war, because it is, in the end, about nothing. We have lived in a world where Arabs fight Jews, Hutus fight Tutsis, communists fight fascists, Serbs fight Croats, and British and American troops ...
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BBC News - Policing Mexico's deadliest beat
1 day ago ago from BBC
Blanca Del Rio, has become one of Ciudad Juarez's new police cadets Police in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez have a tough beat, with one of the world's highest murder rates and the all-powerful drug cartels to combat. Yet eager recruits are still ready to join the fray, as Katya Adler reports. Knick-knacks and wooden crosses adorn the pale pink walls of Blanca Del Rio's tiny bungalow. It is impeccably clean and tidy. It almost hurts ...
Related contentBBC News - Arrests in Colombian anti-drugs raid with Mexico link
8 hours ago ago from BBC
Some of the suspects are said to be linked to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman More than 20 people have been arrested in several Colombian cities, in what is being described as the biggest anti-drugs operation in a decade. Colombian police say the arrests are the culmination of a two-year investigation, supported by US agents. Half of the suspects are experienced pilots, accused of carrying cocaine to Central America and Mexico. ...
Related contentBBC News - Mexico arrests two suspected Tijuana drug gang leaders
6 hours ago ago from BBC
Teodoro Garcia Simental was arrested nearly a month ago Mexican police and troops have arrested two men suspected of heading a drug gang operating in the city of Tijuana, on the border with the US. In two simultaneous operations, security forces targeted Manuel Garcia Simental and Raydel Lopez Uriarte. Their arrest follows last month's capture of Mr Garcia Simental's brother, Teodoro. Their gang is believed to have carried ...
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