Mexico’s Inconvenient Truth: Governor Rick Perry is Right (La Vanguardia, Spain)
Oct 6th, 2011 | 2 responses
As uncomfortable is it may make people in the United States – and especially in Mexico – this editorial from Spain’s La Vanguardia warns that with 30 percent of Mexico already in the hands of drug cartels, there may be no way other to take a President Perry up on his offer if Mexico is to avoid becoming a failed state.
The La Vanguardia editorial says in part:
Mexico City Mayor Marcelino Ebrard, who aspires to be a candidate of the left in the presidential election next year, asserts that the war against drug trafficking in his country cannot be won without the help of the United States. This is an inconvenient truth for both countries.
Since 2006 when the government decided to declare war on drug trafficking with the direct intervention of the Armed Forces, Mexican organized crime has accounted for 35,000 deaths among criminals, police, soldiers and civilians. The death toll reflects the bloody capacity of criminal groups to defend themselves and fight among themselves for control of territory, and to maintain their rule of terror.
Drug cartels and their entire criminal networks have already taken possession of vast portions of Mexican territory, amounting to 30 percent of the country’s total land area. These are places where the state is completely incapable of guaranteeing the life and property of citizens.
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2 Responses to “Mexico’s Inconvenient Truth: Governor Rick Perry is Right (La Vanguardia, Spain)”
The basis of the problem is that Mexicans are corrupt from the top down. Deployment of our military should never be done in any manor whereby a Mexican has any control over them what-so-ever. Deployment of our military may indeed return sovereign territory to the elected Mexican government, but unless they stay in Mexico, I think it clear that Mexico’s tendency for corruption will simply return the country to it’s pre-invasion state.
All anyone needs to do is tune into Burn’s documentrary currently on PBS to see the similarities in prohibition of alcohol then and trying to control illegal drugs now.
No regulation, criminal element fighting to control, etc.
Legalize drugs, control the production and distribution, tax the sale, and send murdering band of criminals back underground.