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War on Drugs in Mexico

Drug Killings Haunt Mexican Schoolchildren See the New York Times for the whole terrible story.

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Drug Massacre Leaves a Mexican Town Terrorized

As reported by James McKinley Jr. in the New York Times: On the night of May 17, dozens of men with assault rifles rolled into town in several trucks and shot up the place [Villa Ahumada]. They killed the police chief, two officers and three civilians. Then they carried off about 10 people, witnesses said. Only one has been found,…

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Take your $1.4 billion and stuff it!

That’s what Mexico may tell the U.S. So reports Laurence Iliff in the Dallas Morning News. Good for them. Here’s the backstory: The U.S. offers money to other countries so they can join our glorious war on drugs. To get the money–and here’s the catch–other countries had to pass a formal (now less formal) “certification” process where we tell them…

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Still more police killed in Mexico drug raid

Duncan Kennedy writes in the BBC: Seven policemen have been killed and four injured in Mexico’s latest incident of drug-related violence. The officers were killed during a raid on a home in Culiacan, in north-west Mexico, police said. Arriving at the house to search for weapons and drugs, police were fired upon and a grenade was thrown at them.

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More on the Mexican drug war

Despite obvious failure, the Mexican president has vowed to “stay the course” of drug prohibition. As if he were standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner, President Calderón says the murder of Police Commissioner Millán, is a sign of government success against the drug cartel. He’s full of shit. James McKinley Jr. writes the story in the New York…

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Mexican police chiefs flee to U.S. for safety

Mexican police chiefs are getting killed right and left, thanks to the war on drugs. Brendan McKanna of the Dallas Morning News reportsthat other chiefs are quitting their posts and three police chiefs have applied for political asylum in the United States out of fear for their lives. When they stand down, who’s going to stand up?

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Losing the drug war

You probably heard about the mass of San Diego State University students arrested for drug dealing. That college students take drugs shouldn’t be a big surprise for anybody who went to college. College students drink, too. Nor, if it weren’t for the guns involved, would I see it as a big problem. The far more worrisome news comes from Mexico.…

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