Tuesday - April 01, 2008

Border Troubles

Drug hitmen tortured and killed four men, wrapping their heads in black garbage bags, as thousands of soldiers and federal police arrived to bolster security in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
The bodies were badly burned, handcuffed and half-naked, shot between Sunday night and Monday morning and dumped on the street in different parts of the city, said the attorney general’s office for northern Chihuahua state.

The murders came as heavily armed soldiers and police set up roadblocks and raided houses over the weekend in the rundown city across the US border from El Paso, Texas, the start of a 2500-troop deployment aimed at crushing drug gangs.

Ciudad Juarez, which has drawn worldwide attention because of a rash of brutal murders of women, has had 200 people killed in drug-related violence this year - 10 times as many as a year ago.

City Hall said soldiers also arrested six local police officers in possession of large quantities of marijuana and blamed police corruption for drug cartels’ hold on Ciudad Juarez, a major narcotics smuggling point into the US.

“People have lost confidence in the police because they know the local forces have been infiltrated and act outside the law,” said Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz.

Already about 25,000 soldiers and federal police have deployed in hotspots across Mexico, especially along the US border.

The overall death toll associated with drug gangs in Mexico has rise to more than 720 this year, well above the count this time last year.

Mexico’s drug wars killed more than 2500 people in 2007.

What’s wrong with the USA? This is front page news - in Tasmania!!! But we only hear about this once in a great while. Fox ran a little report this morning, and I think they had another piece a month or two ago.

There is a war going on just south of the border, sometimes north of the border too. Mexico has called out it’s army to fight the drug gangs, and it’s a real war. Automatic weapons, grenades, rocket launchers, machine guns. Actual battles. Ok, large skirmishes. But it’s been going on for months. I’d think this would be in the news nearly every day.

I’d dream that the US was deploying thousands of troops to our side of the line, vigorously prosecuting any incursions, stopping the banditos in their tracks. Sort of pre-desert training. All while building a stronger, better fence as fast as possible, with a workforce of 50,000 or so unemployed people on workfare. Hell, I need a job, and if Uncle wants to pay me $20/hr to run a shovel for a couple months, I’d go. Yeah, I know no fence is going to stop it all. But a good one will stop some, and stopping some beats stopping none by a long shot.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/01/2008 at 11:24 AM   
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