MSM continues to ignore effects of War on Drugs: violence in Juarez, MX.
Submitted by rucdelaspook on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 17:23"The new year began much as the last one ended in Juárez - three homicides on New Year's Day.
Juárez had its most violent year in memory in 2008 as extortion, street shootings and beheadings became an almost daily occurrence because of a crime wave fueled by a war among drug cartels.
Chihuahua state police spokesman Arturo Sandoval said that a final tally on the number of homicides last year would not be available until later this week. But unofficially, 2008 ended with more than 1,600 homicides around Juárez.
Juárez officials said the city police force is in better shape than it was a year ago. It fired 300 officers deemed untrustworthy, grew to more than 1,600 officers and acquired needed firearms from the federal government.
But as 2009 begins, Juárez and the rest of Mexico still face a public-safety crisis from the corrupting power of organized crime that some have describe as a national security threat also felt on the U.S. side of the border.
"The continued impunity of these crimes constitutes a frontal threat to the rule of law in our binational community," states a draft of a proposed resolution condemning the violence in Juárez, scheduled to go before the El Paso City Council on Tuesday."
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When I visited my family and friends this Christmas, this was the main subject of many conversations. El Paso, TX and Juarez, MX are sister cites. Tourism into Mexico has dropped significantly. El Paso usually ranks among the top 3 safest cities in America! This degree of violence across the border is astonishing. Mexicans killing Mexicans-- killing women and children. And everyone agreed that it was happening because of America's War on Drugs. Over 1,600 people in a year...
Did any of you know that this was happening?
Banned movie "Bordertown"
See the "banned" movie "Bordertown". The cast and crews lives were threatened and film equipment damaged when filming, mostly in the Nogales area as Juarez became to risky to film in.Strangely, the film was never released in the states, but had a limited release in Mexico. It stars Antonio Bandares and Jennifer Lopez. It is available on DVD at some rental stores. It has strong political undertones. See it and you will know why big corporate/government types don't want the movie to be seen. It hits NAFTA and the media hardest, though I do not agree that NAFTA was the main cause for the mass murders of mostly young women as the film implies.
Constitution revolution!
Liberty is on the march, tyranny is on the run!
The War on Drugs
exists to sustain the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex and to eliminate competition for BIG alcohol and tobacco (the funders of DARE) and the pharmaceutical industry.
These players are all powerful and have been investing in their propaganda machines for decades. They begin with the kids at school, and continue this ruse in the media.
Record crops of opium in Afghanistan will generate heroin profits for the Taliban it is being reported.
I wonder if the CIA is running heroin from operations in the golden triangle. They imported cocaine from Honduras during the Contra-Nicaraguan operations in the 80's to generate untraceable profits to finance wars globally. It's not too far fetched to think that they are running herion to any of the many bases worldwide from operations in Afghanistan for cash.
It seems very likely that this could be happenning.
The war on drugs is so
The war on drugs is so 1990s.
http://federalfallacy.com
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I live in central Texas and we rarely hear about this.
On occasion, but most people only hear about news secondhand or in soundbites and headlines. Truth is seldom deemed newsworthy.
It's disheartening.
Before I left El Paso, I was well aware of the travesties going on across the border. But after 5 months, I had already forgotten them. When I returned for Christmas, it was all anyone could talk about (at least, the adults). I was shocked. People being beheaded with machetes? Doctors denying life support to victims on the street because if they try to help them, they will get shot? Having to wait until the victims ultimately die before taking the body to the hospital? It's hell over there.
And in 5 months, it was forgotten. 1 whole year and it's still going.
Because
these days, truth are lies and lies are truth. Mr. Orwell would be proud.
Liberty is on the march, tyranny is on the run!