Mexico pours troops into border city stricken by drug war

[lovuian]

Mexico pours troops into border city stricken by drug war

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/06/mexico.troops/index.html

- Nearly 7,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police arrived in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez this week to restore security to a city plagued by a long-standing, bloody drug war.
Mexican federal police patrol in Ciudad Juarez earlier this week.

Mexican federal police patrol in Ciudad Juarez earlier this week.
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Random vehicle checkpoints, patrols of masked soldiers and police in SWAT gear are some of the signs of the massive military buildup ordered by Mexico's president, Ciudad Juarez police spokesman Jaime Torres Valadez said Thursday.

Another 1,500 soldiers are expected to join the 3,500 that rolled into Juarez earlier this week to support municipal police in street patrols and ultimately take control of their operations, Torres said.

In addition to the army troops, about 3,000 federal agents arrived to carry out investigations Torres likened to those of the FBI in the United States.

"They'll stay as long as necessary," Torres said, in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas.

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We need our OWN troops back home to defend our own country

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. What we need is to decriminalize drugs.

[cbc5g]

2. legalization is the only answer

But that might cripple Mexico's economy as well as other countries that depend on our prohibition for the transfer of wealth.

[lovuian]

3. what we need is the corruption to STOP

this is like Al Capone taking over Mexico

it has to stop

[Webster Green]

4. Legalize it!

Remove the black market element, and you get rid of the worst problems associated with "drugs".

Educate people about mind altering substances and their risks, eliminate the bullshit propaganda, and the remaining problems will be much easier to deal with.

Harm reduction! :smoke:

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

5. I watched this shift to weapons start in 1967, thats when growers

and suppliers of pot started asking for weapons instead of cash and dealers in the U S A were all to happy to supply them because weapons were cheaper in the U S A and they got better deals then the cash price for pot. I felt then that it would result in what we are seeing today. I also remember photos in newspapers and the news of the Mexican Army burning pot crops, but what they didn't tell you was it had already been topped,harvested.