The drug wars in Mexico are seriously undermining the country's judicial, police and security infrastructure. I work for a federal agency that is involved with international trade, and we have already seen instances in which small and medium-size businesses in Mexico are developing cash flow problems because of systematic kidnapping campaigns that take a huge toll in ransom money. Right now, I'd feel safer traveling in Iraq than in parts of Mexico (and I wouldn't go to Ciudad Juarez on a bet).
The government's failure to improve border security because of a lack of concern over the inflow of illegal aliens is now likely to put us in the position of being strictly reactive as the violence ultimately spills across the border. Perhaps when an armored unit of the Mexican army escorting a convoy of narcotraficantes "accidentally" winds up in downtown Tucson, somebody will stand up and take notice.
Hold 'em off, Yojimbo. Help is on the way (maybe).
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We better hope Mexico gets its act together and damn soon. The current flow of illegals across our borders will look like a Texas ditch in the middle of summer if Mexico collapses.
ReplyDeletePaco. Did your two border agents get a Bush reprieve? Mehaul.
ReplyDeleteNo, Mehaul, I'm afraid not.
ReplyDelete"Blame Pershing!"
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We'll stop'em at Tubac,Pacosan, you have my word on it. Plenty of local stories about the small retail shops and pharmacies going under because of the turmoil.
ReplyDeleteI think C&R will get a pardon Monday or Tuesday morning. No reason not to. I don't think this is even on the Dems radar but it sure is for a great many conservatives who have been quite vocal. He had better do it or that wedge between conservatives and the Party is going to widen even further, and it's at one of those tipping point thingies right now.
"We better hope Mexico gets its act together and damn soon."
ReplyDeleteAnd the last time they EVER managed that was...?
"And the last time they EVER managed that was...?"
ReplyDeleteAh the revolution!!!
richard
Just an aside, since I was a "deserter" from communist Hungary, I was denied visa to Mexico.
I think that still stands, not that I want to go there now.
Bill
Bill: You couldn't get a visa to go to Mexico because you had left Hungary? Strange. I know that Mexico has always maintained relations with communist countries, but at one time they prided themselves on following the middle way: "Ni captitalismo, ni socialismo" - neither capitalism nor socialism ("leaving you,", as Bill Buckley once wrote, "with...well, with what Mexico's got.")
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