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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I came across this while sorting my pics and thought I'd hop back and share it.
The image is courtesy of Stratfor and among their public offerings during the open/free period.
After looking at this map and considering it's implications, I think the best solution might just be to build that wall but make it a proper one with consideration toward physical defensive ability. The whole nation down there is in turmoil and chaos, if not full blown civil war.
Originally posted by PulsusMeusGallo
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
After looking at this map and considering it's implications, I think the best solution might just be to build that wall but make it a proper one with consideration toward physical defensive ability. The whole nation down there is in turmoil and chaos, if not full blown civil war.
Good Lord, what a distorted, convoluted, obfuscated and unreal view of Mexico many people in this thread have conjured.
Good Lord, what a distorted, convoluted, obfuscated and unreal view of Mexico many people in this thread have conjured.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Well, I would be more than happy to hear precisely how you feel I am wrong and totally ignorant of the Mexican situation
2008 Drug-related killings soar. Murders linked to organised crime leap to almost 1,400 in first five months of year.
2008 May - Attorney-general Eduardo Medina Mora says more than 4,000 people have been killed in 18 months since President Calderon took office and declared war on drugs cartels. About 450 of the dead are police, soldiers or prosecutors, and many of the killings have been concentrated along the US border.
2009 December - One of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, Arturo Beltran Leyva, is killed in a shoot-out with state security forces. The authorities put the number of drug-related killings for 2009 at around 6,500, the worst year of bloodshed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in late 2006.
2011 August - An attack on the Casino Royale in Monterrey kills 52 people, after gunmen douse the building with fuel and set it alight. President Calderon describes the attack as "an abhorrent act of terror."
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Well... Umm, Yeah.. Several. Source? Stats? Safe in what context?
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
It would appear they are getting the view the media intends for them, and along with it the ideas desired for them to propogate. Here the resulting dialog bespeaks the agenda. Read the OP "news" link to see it was just a fear propoganda piece from fugitive.com, its entire article quoted in whole in the opening post.
Originally posted by ErongaricuaroA thread was trashed by ATS mods that was announcing this week's Summit of the Americas conference in Cartagena, Colombia that will be attended by 34 American countries' leaders and an agenda to discuss new drug policy directions aimed at stopping corruption and violence. Ostensibly since legalization and liberalization of drug laws was mention that sort of talk could not be allowed on ATS. Apparently fomenting violence with talk of raiding foreign countries and killing brown people is perfectly fine though.
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Yes, government forces might as well give up the battle and find a new strategy at the Americas Summit this week in Cartagena. The narcos have all the money and the best and latest military equipment money can buy, like this custom-built assault vehicle, which BTW is air-conditioned too:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/388a1d5639d5.jpg[/atsimg]
Not to mention the cartels are also well-armed, courtesy of the US ATF.
edit on 11-4-2012 by Erongaricuaro because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by PulsusMeusGallo
Well, it was interesting chatting with you.
Originally posted by PulsusMeusGallo
...constant, repetitive and purposeful distortions ...does not fit their agenda and/or their obfuscated viewpoints on life in Mexico...
FYI. I have a place in Merida and share one in Tulum.If peeps don't want to come to Mexico to live, fine by me.