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2011-02-01 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2011-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 A leftist government in Guerrero is much more likely to accommodate drug cartels than a PRI or PAN governor.

Does this mean the -- or some -- cartels will move there, where they're less likely to be hassled by the Mexican army? Or that the cartels already based there will thrive relative to the others because they will have a lower cost of dealing with threats, simply due to the luck of their location (Darwin always wins)?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-01 17:00|| 2011-02-01 17:00|| Front Page Top

#2 The issue is of reallocation of resources. Lopez Obrador has made that much clear. Funds taken from security and goes to traditional forms of support for the poor such as tortilla price supports, can't be used to monitor or fight cartel operations in Guerrero. That task then calls to the Policia Federal and the army.

Cartels already have the upper hand in Guerrero because of Acapulco. Beltran-Leyva and Sinaloa drug gangs already have operations in Acapulco. Other cartels have no reason to move in since drug sales are to tourists. It is not a major source of income for any drug gang.

The most likely affect of the new leftist government is that if it decides to reallocate resources, that pressure on those drug gang operations will lessen.

Guerreo is a poor state. 21 percent illiteracy and it as the highest outmigration rates in Mexico. Poverty is grinding there. PRD will take full advantage of those facts for the next six years. It sure did in the elections.

Posted by badanov 2011-02-01 17:32|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-02-01 17:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, badanov. Your comments illuminate the original piece.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-01 19:24|| 2011-02-01 19:24|| Front Page Top

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