The investigation into the disappearance of U.S. tourist David Hartley by narco-trafficking pirates in Mexico has raised the hackles of U.S. officials, who are exasperated by the lack of progress of the probe and the general lawlessness across the border. But according to this editorial from Mexico’s La Jornada, Mexicans hold the United States responsible – not only for Hartley’s presumed death, but for the entire drug war that may have caused it.
The editorial from La Jornada says in part:
It is fitting here to recall that this phenomenon is the price Mexico has been obliged to pay in consequence of a war that’s essentially alien to us. This war has gestated, on the one hand, due to the production and trade of firearms and the insatiable demand for drugs on U.S. territory; and on the other, by the policies of prohibition and frontal attack on the production and distribution of narcotics that, with support of governments that have given in to its demands, Washington has managed to impose on the region.
Thus, while social, political and institutional normalcy in Mexico is collapsing as a result of the actions of criminal groups, the trafficking, distribution and consumption of illegal narcotics continues as usual in U.S. cities, without news of shootings, executions and drug-related kidnappings in that country.
Moreover, the consternation and dismay expressed by the U.S. secretary of state on the occasion of this murder is in stark contrast to the lack of similar words expressed about the countless cases of Mexicans killed in the neighboring country, be it by xenophobic groups, criminal organizations or the authorities themselves. Significantly, since the founding of the entity in 1924, no member of the U.S. Border Patrol has been declared culpable of homicide, and only two of its agents have ever appeared in court accused of murder. This, despite the many cases of unjustified deaths of migrants – many of them Mexican – at the hands of that organization.
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