Mexican president blames U.S. corruption for hampering drug war

[Robbien]

Source: El Paso Times



The Mexican president has blamed US "corruption" for hampering his nation's efforts to combat violent drug cartels.

Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of Mexico's drug gang problems was "having the world's biggest consumer next to us".

"Drug trafficking in the United States is fuelled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said on Wednesday.

The Mexican president launched a massive assault on drug cartels after entering office in late 2006 but the cartels have responded with campaigns of violence and intimidation that left 6,000 dead in 2008 alone and around 1,000 in 2009 so far.

Calderon acknowledged some Mexican officials had helped the cartels but said the US should ask itself how many of its own officials were implicated.

"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between Mexico and the United States," he said. "I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this ."

Read more: http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11852600

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We don't prosecute our elites for corruption. We give them bailouts.

[EFerrari]

1. And medals.

And Calderon, who stole the election with BushCo help, has a lot of fucking nerve to even say the word "corruption".

[GillesDeleuze]

7. color me unsurprised

this time its not the cia?

[EFerrari]

10. BushCo sent everything including speech writers.

I don't know who intimidated the panel that was supposed to investigate the election and who caved. It was dirty from start to finish.

[Renew Deal]

2. Calderon should spend his time sealing his border

Instead of blaming us for gun imports and the rest. You can walk into Mexico at a crossing without anyone saying a word! They want it that way so Americans can come over and buy "pharmaceuticals."

Mexico is one of the more profoundly corrupt nations for as long as anyone remembers. He should spend more time looking inwards.

[apnu]

3. No kidding. Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black? (nt)

[Robbien]

5. For as long as anyone remembers the US has been funneling money into Mexico's

corruption. There are profits to be had when we are able to keep a country's elites corrupt.

Mexico closing the border would only kill profits making our Chamber of Commerce types very very angry.

[Renew Deal]

6. Sorry, but kill whose profits?

The Mexicans? They complain about gun imports, but they don't question anyone coming in the country.

I suppose you could say that we should cut off Mexico, but that's probably when they really go to hell.

Envision this...Mexico goes into some full scale civil war. What will we do with the refugees? We would be obligated to accept them. Imagine how that will play with the american public.

[lsewpershad]

13. Really?You Probably were on Mars when the shrub was in power

We are the ones who should be looking inward. The problem is we are always looking outward to see who else we can exploit for our benefit. We felt for too long that as long as we are OK to hell with the rest of the world. Now our self agrandizing policies at the expense of others are back fireing. We helped Calderon because we were affraid of "people power" next door. Now we are paying the price. By the way our capitalist, free market system might be responsible for all the guns that are now in the hands of the criminals in the Mexican streets. Think it's time for inward loking?

[nyy1998]

14. From a guy living on a border town

I strongly disagree with you. Just because Bush was corrupt doesn't mean you should protray everyone on the border as corrupt(in fact most guys on the border tend to be democrats). It's extremely easy for anyone to enter Mexico and do anything they want. In fact, one of our main problems before te drug war was plenty of underage(forget under 21,think under 18) were drinking. And who encouraged it? Mexico! "Come here for cheap tequila and margaritas!" Oh, and if you get caught, a common rule was to give the cop whatever $$ he want, and you could go pass through. Everyone in my town, and I know Obama feels the same way, is that it's Mexico's fault and Mexico's corruption. It's Calderon that should be doing most of the inward looking.

[No Elephants]

19. Most guys on the border tend to be Democrats?

[crikkett]

20. ptht. sealing the border is a straw man. i read that immigration from mx. is down by 2/3.

[slackmaster]

4. Pardon the metaphor

[Fumesucker]

8. It's corruption that is *driving* the drug war..

Judges were recently convicted of taking kickbacks to sentence young people to private prisons..

That is but the infinitesimal tip of the iceberg.

Turn over any "drug war" government program and you will see corrupt cockroaches scurrying out of the light.

[davepc]

9. Who is this guy kidding?

Then there is the corruption, endemic on the local and state levels but common enough in the federal police force as well. In 2005, Mexico’s attorney general reported that one-fifth of the federal force was under investigation. It’s not a black-and-white affair, though. City police loyal to traffickers are known to supply them with guns (and vice versa), but honest cops who work in poor departments also buy guns on the black market for protection. According to the agent in Mexico City, however, even the federal police often don’t report the guns they seize; they either keep them for themselves or, more troubling, resell them to criminal organizations along with such items as uniforms. (Cartel hit men often wear police uniforms, either as a disguise or because they sometimes are the police.) It’s not uncommon for seized guns to end up at new crime scenes later.

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In 1985, Mexico disbanded the entire Direcciones Federales, the predecessor of the current federal police force, after high-ranking officials were implicated in a D.E.A. agent’s murder. At least twice since then, its head narcotics officers have been tied to cartels, as have members of all three major political parties and, reportedly, at least two presidential families.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/international-news/portfolio/2008/06/16/Examining-the-US-Mexico-Gun-Trade


Then there is this....




The right hand side is traffic entering into the US. The lefthand side is traffic entering Mexico.

[Politicalboi]

11. I blame Mexico for our bad economy

Mexico has a lot of nerve to say that the US is responsible for this. They encourage people to come here illegally and live off our dime but yet they treat their own like shit.

[Royal Sloan 09]

12. K n R, Who's War on Drugs?

I don't recall Mexico starting a War on Drugs, that's our policy or law. We've spread this immoral action against people around the world.
Multiple South American leaders have spoken out recently against the US's War on Drugs and the damage it's has caused their countries, they've had enough, have WE? :grr:


War on Drugs = Failure

[AlphaCentauri]

23. We're taking the fight to the terrorists abroad, so we don't have to face them here at home.

the Mexicans and Colombians are dying trying to stop our recreational habits

[fascisthunter]

15. The Mexican President Stole His ELection

it would help if you fascist bastards actually let the people take care of themselves through their government but you are too twisted and greedy to ever admit your governing ideology is a sham.

[goforit]

22. Mind you......with the help from BUSH!!! That way corruption continues to blossom.

[ohio2007]

16. Nero fiddled as Rome burned nt

[Rage for Order]

17. It couldn't possibly be all the Mexican police officials that are being murdered

Nope, that can't be it at all. It must be those damn gringos!

Who the hell smokes Mexican dirt weed anymore anyway? I prefer to look to our northern border for my green leafy substances.

[BadGimp]

18. "Mr Kettle you sir are in fact Black,"

Said Mr Pot.

Pun intended..........

[goforit]

21. Bushco has to make their billions somewhere.

[jberryhill]

24. In other news - Pimp Union Blames Johns for Trafficking In Prostitutes /nt

[mojowork_n]

25. Page 1 News -- Somewhere, but not this country n/t

[Uncle Joe]

26. This Alice In Wonderland concept of waging a "War on Some Drugs" is an insane, illogical,

freedom trashing, Bill of Rights raping, national security threatening, for profit prison enriching, government corrupting, organized crime empowering, family destroying, precious resource wasting, corporate supremacist worshiping, individual trashing, American Citizen disenfranchising, Orwellian inspired Big Brother loving policy, other than that I don't have anything against it.

[Turbineguy]

27. Maybe we can do something

to make reality more satisfying than drugs.