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US Corruption Fuels Drug Trade: Calderon
US Corruption Fuels Drug Trade: Calderon
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon hit back at accusations his government is failing in the fight against violent drug cartels,
saying that corruption in the United States is also to blame.
With murders among feuding Mexican drug cartels on the rise and continued ravenous demand for cocaine and other illegal drugs north of the border,
Calderon said the United States should take a hard look at itself before pointing the finger at anyone else.
"The main cause of the problems associated with organized crime is having the world's biggest consumer next to us," Calderon said in an interview with
AFP.
"Drug trafficking in the United States is fueled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said, calling on US
President Barack Obama to step up the fight against drugs in his own country.
Calderon admitted some Mexican officials had helped cartels, but urged the United States to consider how many of its officials have been implicated.
"I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this," he said, listing a string of prosecutions made against Mexican police
officers and government officials during his administration.
"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between Mexico and the United States," he said.
Although cocaine is largely produced in South America, Mexican cartels control much of the multi-billion-dollar trade, transporting the drug to
consumers in the United States.
Since taking office in late 2006, Calderon has launched a wide-ranging crackdown on drug cartels, often with bloody repercussions, as cartels hit back
with ever-higher levels of violence and intimidation.
Mexican cities on the US border have suffered the brunt of the violence, prompting concerns in Washington that the killings and attacks could spill
over the border.
Some 5,300 people were murdered in drug violence across Mexico in 2008. Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, was worst hit, with more than 1,600
drug-related deaths reported.
Top US military official Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is due in Mexico later this week as Washington prepares to
step up military and other assistance to tackle the heavily armed cartels.
"One of the things he expects to talk to his counterparts in Mexico and other officials about is the growing violence and growing threat with regard
to narco-trafficking and the drug cartels," Captain John Kirby, spokesman for Mullen, also told AFP on Wednesday.
Mexico's ill-equipped police and security forces are often out-gunned by the well-armed gangs.
The administration of George W. Bush pledged 1.6 billion dollars over three years in security assistance to Mexico and Central America, primarily
aimed at better equipping Mexico's security forces.
To even the playing field further, Calderon called on US officials to do more to stem the flow of weapons from the United States to Mexico, a route
often used by traffickers to acquire arms.
"The biggest empowerment of organized crime are the weapons that arrive from the United States," the president said.
"Since 2006 we have decommissioned 27,000 arms, everything from missile launchers to 2,500 grenades. We have also found uniforms and arms belonging to
the US Army."
But he said recent talks with Washington had offered hope: "I have spoken to Obama about this subject.... We now have a clearer, more decisive
response (from the current administration), one which matches the magnitude of the problem which we face.
In late February, US Attorney General Eric Holder said US and Mexican authorities had arrested 750 people over 21 months in an anti-drug sweep,
including 52 members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.
That announcement came as Calderon said an additional 5,000 troops and 1,000 police would be deployed to the border region.
While the United States has played down calls for its own troop deployment, recently appointed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said
contingency plans to deal with violence spilling over the frontier are being reassessed.
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"Calderon admitted some Mexican officials had helped cartels, but urged the United States to consider how many of its officials have been implicated."
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Well....That probably won't be happening so, why doesn't he just let the gato out of the bolsa and tell us all about it. Names, please. Let's hear
some names.
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names, yeah, names...sure...i'm waiting for the list...i'm sure it will be long and shocking!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
"Calderon admitted some Mexican officials had helped cartels, but urged the United States to consider how many of its officials have been implicated."
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Well....That probably won't be happening so, why doesn't he just let the gato out of the bolsa and tell us all about it. Names, please. Let's hear
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He is just blowing smoke .......
He has no names .....
Grasping at straws .......
Has his head up his a......
Is just like every other corrupt mexican politician who can't take any responsibility .....
Thought he was a good guy at first, but now his true colors are showing through .....
Take some responsibility .
As I have said before , when you blame others for your problems, you are giving up your power to others ....
Maybe it is time to send the US Marines across the border to handle this crap ....
These are counter statements that are made all too often by the denizens of Mexican government.
CaboRon
[Edited on 3-5-2009 by CaboRon]
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Is'nt it obvious that CaldCABRON is a narco-president. If he was not he would be dead by now.
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Same o'l CACA----Different day
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Marines across the border??? Only if you advocate our total takeover of Mexico. Mission accomplished.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Marines across the border??? Only if you advocate our total takeover of Mexico. Mission accomplished. |
An invasion is out of the question. After all, Mexico is our friend and neighbor. Instead, we just put around 200,000 Marine guards in each
embassy.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Marines across the border??? Only if you advocate our total takeover of Mexico. Mission accomplished. |
An invasion is out of the question. After all, Mexico is our friend and neighbor. Instead, we just put around 200,000 Marine guards in each
embassy. |
 It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood,
A beautiful day to be neighbors,
Won't you be mine,
Won't you be mine,
Won't you be my neighbor ?
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With the impending pull out of marines in iraq, we just may have the troops to pull this off, unless of course they have some other plan in mind?
p.s. I had no idea Mr. Roger's was a Marine!
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I just checked out Fred Roger's snoop entries, and contrary to what I had heard, he never was a Navy Seal or sniper, in fact has no military
service history.
CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
I just checked out Fred Roger's snoop entries, and contrary to what I had heard, he never was a Navy Seal or sniper, in fact has no military
service history.
CaboRon |
Right-on Ron. There was a story drifting around a while back about his heroics but, Snopes said BS.
On the other hand, Lee Marvin and Capt, Kangaroo [what's his real name] earned all sorts of medals for valor.
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What else can he say really? He has ordered everyone to put on a happy face and take the offensive. It's all they have left. The narco money fuels
their economy. They can't pull the plug and the narcos know it.
We'll see how the full military control of Juarez goes. I think that city is decisive.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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The FBI has a division to investigate police corruption. A met an agent who worked for it. He said the low pay results in corruption. Hence, the
problem in New Orleans.
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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
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Well....That probably won't be happening so, why doesn't he just let the gato out of the bolsa and tell us all about it. Names, please. Let's hear
some names. |
He is just blowing smoke .......
He has no names .....
Grasping at straws .......
Has his head up his a......
Is just like every other corrupt mexican politician who can't take any responsibility .....
Thought he was a good guy at first, but now his true colors are showing through .....
Take some responsibility .
As I have said before , when you blame others for your problems, you are giving up your power to others ....
Maybe it is time to send the US Marines across the border to handle this crap ....
These are counter statements that are made all too often by the denizens of Mexican government.
CaboRon
[Edited on 3-5-2009 by CaboRon] |
Your bitter dissapointment in Baja is running over your attitude and objectivity. I am sure that getting mad because Baja was not your dream
destination for retirment has nothing to do with your lack of knowledge or understanding.
During prohibition there was so much money being produced by the alcohol trade and organized crime that it was common knowledge at the time that
certain law enforcement succumbed to the pressure of large amonts of money in the form of bribes, payments, or whatever which actually greased the
wheels of distribution.
To think that there is not some level of penetration into local law enforcement in the United States is naive and uninformed. The cartels have
become very effecient and well organized operations with almost unlimited amounts of money. Perhaps you would rather classify the interaction as
lobbying in their best interest of the cartels.
This is a big industry and the last I heard there are no bailouts from failed revenues. Check out this info:
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs27/27513/27513p.pdf
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It seems that when an American lights up a doobie, a Mexican has to die.
Who is at fault for that?
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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The only way you will be able to clean up Mexico now that it has gotten this far is to mete out brute force and I mean brutal brute force to the drug
cartels.
President Calderon needs to invoke Article 29 of the Mexican Constitution to go along with a massive injection of federal officers and federal troops
starting at one end of Mexico and go into a lock down of the country establishing martial law and curfew.
The federals can then move through the country until they have completely covered it from one end to the other searching every person, every rancho,
every house, every building block by block and either capturing or killing each and every one of these Narcos.
Once the government has cleaned out an area they can restore democracy. During the cleanup they can prepare "Clean" Municipal, State, and Federal
Police to keep the ground they cleaned out. This is the only way it can be stopped.
The Mexican government also needs to update their laws to include at the bare minimum the death penalty for drug related murders. Then carry out the
sentences once handed down.
Simplified yes, but it would be a start!
AND WHOLLY GUANO DO NOT KID YOURSELVES AND CAVE IN BY TALKING ABOUT LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS BECAUSE IT WILL NOT STOP THE VIOLENCE.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rpleger
It seems that when an American lights up a doobie, a Mexican has to die.
Who is at fault for that? |
Obviously, The Americans don't care. 
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again.... from a recent thread...
"The Power of the Dog" by Don Winslow (@ 2005 , Vintage Books (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard) a division of Random House.
Good read. Suspensful, violent, graphic, etc.
Fiction, but seems to have many interesting parallels / similarities to the "drug wars".
Set in Baja, Sinaloa, Mx., S. Cal, NYC (and other Latin America "hot spots"), etc.
A good read ~ hard to put down if you like this style...
NONE of the book really touches on those beautiful things we LOVE about Baja.... It does fictionalize many of those things we dread about Baja (and
the US), crime, drugs, and connections with intl' politics & crime. Might be a fun read for some of my fellow Nomads.
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
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