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2011-08-29 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2011-08-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 When elements of every enforcement agency you have are corrupt, and you are losing entire police forces to the cartel, it is very difficult to gain traction. Not to mention that the government is out-gunned and out-spent by these cartels.

There have been significant crackdowns and arrests but it seems to not resonate at the street level.
Calderon is between a rock and a hard place.

Remember, he had to be sworn in in secret at midnight. It is quite dire.

Posted by newc 2011-08-29 08:29|| 2011-08-29 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 No tears here. In the 80s, the Reagan administration granted amnesty with the promise of securing the border. Of course that flopped because the Mexican ruling caste had no interest in stopping the flood of mestizos and indios they were moving out to avoid having to do serious reform or face revolution. So reform was never of interest to the Mexican government. They've been like the North Koreans making promises they'd never keep while Washington thinks they can reason or deal with them. Now its too late. Hobbled by a corrupt governmental infrastructure, at war with agents that can compete in recruiting cannon fodder who at least believe the peso in the pocket today is better than the lies of pesos in the future by the ruling caste, he has very few options. The one effective option would be to close the border now, but the consequences of exposing the truth of the matter and the decades of lies of the ruling caste is about as palatable for him as Kimmy giving up nukes. Its about POWER.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-29 09:41|| 2011-08-29 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I can't help thinking our own US government is every bit as corrupt and every bit as responsible for this tragedy as Mexico's. If our government would do its job and secure the border the cartels would go out of business, right? Well, they might at least give it a try. But they don't because they're just as crooked as the cartels themselves.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-08-29 14:33|| 2011-08-29 14:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I might add that Calderon gets credit in my book for at least trying to do something about it. As I recall, his predecessor Vicente Fox did nothing except to ask us to leave our border wide open.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-08-29 14:35|| 2011-08-29 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought most of the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug gangs/cartels/whatever were purchased from arms merchants or maleficent governments like Cuba and Venezuela. In other words, while most of the traceable guns came from the U.S., and the Gunwalker effort certainly increased the number of traceable guns, that most of the guns the authorities found in connection to crimes in Mexico did not come from The Yanquis. Did I miss something?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-29 16:57|| 2011-08-29 16:57|| Front Page Top

#6 They are counting all of the M-16s that were legally sold to governments in Central America in registered and supervised sales from government to government, and which through endemic corruption, wind up being sold to the cartels by the various armies after the weapons were legally delivered and turned over to their governments. That is so that they can still say we are responsible for so many of the illegal guns in Mexico.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-08-29 18:28|| 2011-08-29 18:28|| Front Page Top

#7 AK47s are abundant and available from China as well

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-29 18:44|| 2011-08-29 18:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Norinco, the Chinese arms manufacturer still makes AK-47s. Hard to believe the Sinaloa Cartel and Caballeros Templarios do not demand their supplier of precursor chemicals they buy by the ton from China doesn't throw in a few cases of assault rifles to sweeten a deal.

Posted by badanov 2011-08-29 20:07|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-08-29 20:07|| Front Page Top

#9 exactly

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-29 20:40|| 2011-08-29 20:40|| Front Page Top

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