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2010-04-30 Caribbean-Latin America

A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

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Posted by Sherry 2010-04-30 12:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Driving on a cold desert night to a small farming community along the Rio Grande where hit men had gunned down a man who stopped to buy a beer, the convoy of local crime photographers snapped away at a soldier manning a checkpoint. He was wearing a skeleton mask, a "mask of death,'' as he pulled over drivers deemed suspicious and who could be carrying drugs or guns. The soldiers were guarding a main highway outside Ciudad Juárez that leads to communal farming communities that mostly grow cotton and alfalfa along the river.

Seems like more people on this side of the border are getting their panties wadded up about stopping people and asking them for identification in attempts at stemming the epidemic of drugs in the U.S. and the trafficking in people for prostitution and other illegal activities. Trafficking in people used to be called slavery. You'd think the people complaining about all this such as Al Sharpton and others would have some interest in trying to curb such illegal activities.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-30 13:08|| 2010-04-30 13:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Trafficking in people used to be called slavery.

The "S" word is only used as it relates to America's Civil War and the lineage of it's protected classes. It does NOT apply to Mexico, Cenral America, or thousands of years of the shameful practice still ongoing in Africa, or the Middle East.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-30 13:25|| 2010-04-30 13:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Tell it, Besoeker.

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-04-30 14:50|| 2010-04-30 14:50|| Front Page Top

#4 It also causes people to lose sight of the real injustices (U.S. slavery and particularly its descendants) not the paltry inconvenience of being the victim of a human trafficking ring in Guatemala.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-04-30 17:22|| 2010-04-30 17:22|| Front Page Top

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