With Mexico’s cataclysmic drug war rapidly bleeding into the United States, this editorial from Mexico’s La Jornada warns people to prepare for extensive U.S. meddling in their nation’s internal affairs. According to the newspaper, Mexico’s government is deteriorating at such an alarming rate, that it is incapable of exercising control over ‘huge swaths’ of the country.
The La Jornada editorial says in part:
The execution-style killings of three U.S. Consulate employees in Ciudad Juarez, two of whom were U.S. citizens, has brought the problem of violence plaguing the country to a new level, since it raises the pressure on Washington to step up its interventionist actions in Mexico.
Our institutions have undergone a process of decline and decay that has now reached alarming proportions, which has led to an exasperating degree of ineffectiveness. Rule of law and the government’s maintenance of territorial control have disappeared from huge swaths of the country.
The reaction of the federal government to the triple assassination that took place in the bloody border city yesterday is doubly deplorable and inopportune. Because the expressions of shock and condolence on the occasion of the U.S. peoples’ deaths would be commendable in themselves, were it not for the lack of similar words addressed to the countless innocent Mexicans slaughtered in the course of this confused and ugly “war.”
No such comments were uttered when Ciudad Juarez students were killed last January 30, an event that overflowed the cup of public exasperation. Neither were such condolences offered for the victims of subsequent massacres in Ciudad Juarez, Coahuila, Sinaloa, Durango or Guerrero. Significantly, among the 50 violent deaths that occurred this weekend, only three – of the employees of the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez – merited the sympathy of our president, even though among the dead were people as alien to the world of crime as the Acapulco woman riding in a taxi who was shot in the head in a crossfire between paid assassins on Vicente Guerrero Boulevard.
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