Is Washington considering direct intervention in Mexico, after the murder of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent? Writing for Mexico’s Excelsior, Attorney Juan Carlos Sánchez Magallan warns his readers that under no circumstances must U.S. troops be permitted to enter Mexican territory – and that Mexican officials should come clean about the how they will end a crime war that has already claimed 35,000 lives.
For Excelsior, Juan Carlos Sánchez Magallan writes in part:
The temptation is always there and manifests itself at the first opportunity: Mrs. Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, and Joseph W. Westphal, deputy secretary of the U.S. Army, are concerned about the long list of events associated with the fight against drug trafficking. Napolitano stated: ‘We are ready to vigorously oppose the cartels,’ and Westphal referred to the danger of ‘organized crime taking control of the (Mexican) government.’ Both agree on an unconcealed desire: intervention.
A long chain of painful experiences has cultivated our instinct for self-preservation in the face of our ambitious neighbors to the north … The United States is eager to intervene with its repressive forces, including the army, on our national territory, in order to finish an endless, badly concealed and interminable battle against organized crime.”
With global events linked to historical experience, it’s hard to believe that two such similar statements by senior U.S. officials on the issue of crime in another country were merely coincidental. The real coincidence is that this territory is ours, and geographical proximity stimulates the ease of a sudden invasion, which would be justified to the world as offering salvation to a friendly country.
President Obama got Egypt right. His words about a new world achieved based on technological progress, were right in the face of such a petrified regime overseeing a society mired in misery. That isn’t the case with Mexico. We haven’t reached full development, but we are conscious of the importance of our homeland.
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