Not so well, according to Pete Guither. Specifically with regard to the 17 people killed in a rehab clinic in Juarez. At least they’ll never take drugs again.
Tag: Mexico
Mexico Decriminalizes Drug Possession
The story in the New York Times. The law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution; the law goes into effect on Friday. Too bad this won’t stop the narco violence.
Prison Labor
In Mexico, on the road between Merida and Campeche, you pass a large prison (filled with people from Mexico City, they say). Lining the highway are a dozen or so stores selling hammocks and other labor-intensive hand-crafted good. They’re made by prisoners. Why don’t we have this?
Viva Mexico
I’m in the same place for two nights for the first time in a week. So I have a little more time to write and check email and the like. I’m always amazed how different things are in Mexico from what most Americans think things are like. Maybe things are worse up in border towns in the north. Or some…
Mexican Immigration Problems
Mexico Builds Border Wall To Keep Out US Assholes
Drug Decriminalization in Mexico
The Mexican legislature has voted to decriminalize possession of up to 5 grams of marijuana, 1/2 gram of cocaine, 40 milligrams of methamphetamine, and 50 milligrams of heroin. From the story by Tracy Wilkinson in the LA Times: The battle between law enforcement authorities and drug suspects has claimed more than 11,000 lives since he took office in late 2006.…
Drug Cartel Violence Spills Into U.S. From Mexico
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. It’s just another sign of the failure of the drug war. What’s our exit strategy? Here’s the story in the New York Times.
Mexico and the “Failed State”
Spin this all want, drug warriors, it’s not good. From Ciudad Juárez. The whole story in the New York Times is here. It was drug traffickers who decided that Chief Roberto Orduña Cruz, a retired army major who had been on the job since May, should go. To make clear their insistence, they vowed to kill a police officer every…
Wait till Next Year!
“Mexican president rejects ‘failed state’ label.” Well, I suppose he would. He also says he’ll have the war on the drugs pretty much wrapped up when he leaves office in 2012. Mean more than 1,000 people have been killed in Mexican war-on-drugs violence in the first eight weeks of 2009. According to the Mexican Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, the…
Mexicans block border to protest drug war
“Hundreds of people in Mexico have blocked key crossings into the US in protests against the deployment of the army fighting drug traffickers.” Read the complete story in the BBC.