Mayor of Mexican town shot dead after death threats

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Mayor of Mexican town shot dead after death threats​

Gunmen have killed the mayor of a Mexican town on the border with the United States.

Manuel Lara Rodriguez, 48, was shot dead in Ciudad Juarez, where he had fled to a month ago after receiving death threats.

He was the mayor of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos in Chihuahua state.
Guadalupe is at the centre of a wave of violence involving rival gangs smuggling drugs to the US.

Hundreds of its residents have been killed and it is listed among the most dangerous towns in the country.

The gunmen attacked Mr Lara at the house where he had been staying in the Santa Teresa neighbourhood of Ciudad Juarez at around midday on Saturday (1630 GMT).

Police said Mr Lara was shot in front of his family, adding that they had found 11 bullet shells in his driveway.

Border trouble
Mexican security forces say towns along the country's US border have become the main battle ground for drug cartels fighting over the lucrative smuggling routes to the United States.

President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of troops to the worst-affected regions along the border as part of his "war on drugs".

This week, he made a televised address appealing to the nation to help combat the escalation of violent drug battles that have rocked the country.
Last month, he asked a joint session of the US Congress for support.

He said it was crucial that the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico was curbed.

Despite his appeals, June is likely to be the deadliest month in his battle against the cartels since he took office almost four years ago.

Around 23,000 people have been killed since he took over as president.

BBC News - Mayor of Mexican town shot dead after death threats

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Here's another example of how those wonderful people will ASSIMILATE right into the American melting pot!
 
Mayor of Mexican town shot dead after death threats

Update: They are no longer threats
 
What else is new? On a daily basis 20 or more people somewhere in Mexico are being assassinated. Who in heck is paying for all these killings??? NOBODY!
 
Legalize it.

End of a whole host of problems these stupid laws create.

Legalize killing?

Obviously not.

But since the USA is unwilling to legalize hemp, and since that market is generating the money that the drug cartels are using against the Mexican government, Mexico ought to legalize the drugs, and tax them, too.

Then let the USA deal with this problem while Mexicans get rich.

Prohibition of drugs and alcohol is a plan destined to fail.
 
Legalize it.

End of a whole host of problems these stupid laws create.

Legalize killing?

Obviously not.

But since the USA is unwilling to legalize hemp, and since that market is generating the money that the drug cartels are using against the Mexican government, Mexico ought to legalize the drugs, and tax them, too.

Then let the USA deal with this problem while Mexicans get rich.

Prohibition of drugs and alcohol is a plan destined to fail.

Ya think...

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It would be absolutely crazy to think that the cartels would switch to a different form of smuggling or crime.
 
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Legalize it.

End of a whole host of problems these stupid laws create.

Legalize killing?

Obviously not.

But since the USA is unwilling to legalize hemp, and since that market is generating the money that the drug cartels are using against the Mexican government, Mexico ought to legalize the drugs, and tax them, too.

Then let the USA deal with this problem while Mexicans get rich.

Prohibition of drugs and alcohol is a plan destined to fail.

The solution is to deport the drug gangs back to Mexico on planes flown by people taking those wonderful drugs!!! Happy landings!!
 
What's going on in Mexico is a tragedy that stems from a very complex set of factors. Read in the newspaper here that there were 200 murders in the past WEEK there. That's nuts! Its almost like a civil war is going on there and its very fucked up. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone knows what to do about it. "Manu dura" (strong hand) tactics haven't worked under Calderon - police and judiciary are too corrupt in Mexico to effectively handle the issue, and the government just does not have the tools (especially in this recession) to offer a suitable alternative (it only has sticks and no carrots). There just isn't the will to solve the heart of the matter - the huge inequality of wealth that distorts the country's institutions and causes discontent from the poor majority. Mexico's poor do not see the police and the state as the "good guys," but just like another big gang, meaning that they are subdued to whichever faction they fear more (in many cases, the cartels). In short, Mexico basically has to win the "hearts and minds" of its own population if it wants to succeed against the Cartels, and to do so it needs to clean house and redistribute the wealth.

Of course the other side of the problem that fuels the cartels (other than government incompetence) is the plain fact that Mexico shares a giant border with the biggest drug market in the world. That's why Mexico also needs US assistance, and it needs the US to implement sensible drug policy. You people might think that, you know, "fuck 'em forrrnrrrss" but the fact is that as the hegemon of this hemisphere, most domestic US policies have giant ripple effects on the rest of our relatively small countries - though by the same token, these effects often come back to the US indirectly and unintendedly (i.e. mass economic migration). Until the US realizes this as well, there won't be much progress either. Everything is connected and demagoguic, misguided short-term solutions (like building a giant wall) will ultimately always fail.
 
What's going on in Mexico is a tragedy that stems from a very complex set of factors. Read in the newspaper here that there were 200 murders in the past WEEK there. That's nuts! Its almost like a civil war is going on there and its very fucked up. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone knows what to do about it. "Manu dura" (strong hand) tactics haven't worked under Calderon - police and judiciary are too corrupt in Mexico to effectively handle the issue, and the government just does not have the tools (especially in this recession) to offer a suitable alternative (it only has sticks and no carrots). There just isn't the will to solve the heart of the matter - the huge inequality of wealth that distorts the country's institutions and causes discontent from the poor majority. Mexico's poor do not see the police and the state as the "good guys," but just like another big gang, meaning that they are subdued to whichever faction they fear more (in many cases, the cartels). In short, Mexico basically has to win the "hearts and minds" of its own population if it wants to succeed against the Cartels, and to do so it needs to clean house and redistribute the wealth.

Of course the other side of the problem that fuels the cartels (other than government incompetence) is the plain fact that Mexico shares a giant border with the biggest drug market in the world. That's why Mexico also needs US assistance, and it needs the US to implement sensible drug policy. You people might think that, you know, "fuck 'em forrrnrrrss" but the fact is that as the hegemon of this hemisphere, most domestic US policies have giant ripple effects on the rest of our relatively small countries - though by the same token, these effects often come back to the US indirectly and unintendedly (i.e. mass economic migration). Until the US realizes this as well, there won't be much progress either. Everything is connected and demagoguic, misguided short-term solutions (like building a giant wall) will ultimately always fail.

As the USA shares a giant border with the biggest producers of drugs in the world. Mexico has been getting assitance from sugar daddy USA since Mexico's inception. Nothing will change in Mexico or any 3rd world country until THEY care more about their people. The rest of the world can care, but at the end of the day, it's up to THEM to better their plight. They can start by having a Rule of Law that is workable, respected and enforced and most of all, by getting rid of the corruption all the way to the TOP! Mexico is a sovereign nation and they resent and do not accept any interference - especially from the USA. It will take a miracle for Mexico to climb out of the pit of hell that they managed to get themselves into.
 
As the USA shares a giant border with the biggest producers of drugs in the world.


Sorry, source to support that claim? Because I'm pretty sure its false. Mexico is not the biggest producer of any drug, though it does produce drugs (like the US also produces drugs). It's the biggest conduit for drugs, meaning that drugs get muled and transported there from all over on the way to the US, because its the biggest market. Stop trying to deflect that. The fact is that the US has the largest population of relatively wealthy brats with disposable income looking for a high to fill their empty, consumption-driven lives out of any other country (because its the largest developed country). I would know, because I've been there and hung out with them. Some of them are my friends, and they're just a few out of tens of millions.

Mexico has been getting assitance from sugar daddy USA since Mexico's inception.

Oh yeah? Like assistance taking a couple million square kilometers off its back? Aw, you guys are too kind, you really shouldn't have bothered. With friends like you... A little more assistance and it might've been 'unnecessary' to militarily occupy Vera Cruz or send the marines into Mexico to catch some common criminal. The US, like most developed countries, gives foreign aid because it is in its best interest to do so.

Nothing will change in Mexico or any 3rd world country until THEY care more about their people. The rest of the world can care, but at the end of the day, it's up to THEM to better their plight. They can start by having a Rule of Law that is workable, respected and enforced and most of all, by getting rid of the corruption all the way to the TOP! Mexico is a sovereign nation and they resent and do not accept any interference - especially from the USA. It will take a miracle for Mexico to climb out of the pit of hell that they managed to get themselves into.

I agree that its up to each country to end its own poverty, but countries don't exist in a vacuum. In Central America the US government supported terrorist police states for 100 years as long as the cheap stuff remained cheap. When Central Americans elected governments whose policies sought to correct the inherent inequality and injustice in their countries, they would get invaded, deposed, or eliminated. It's not like it's only the US's fault that these countries remain poor. But it certainly didn't help. This isn't the case in Mexico, but it also doesn't exist in a vacuum. What I said was very simple: I did not say the US should intervene in Mexico, or shower it with gifts and guns and whatever. I just said that the US should have a sensible drug policy, and that that policy, for best effect, should take into account the effects it can have on its southern neighbors. Not to "be nice," but because those effects can come back in the oh-most-surprising of ways.
 
What have they done with Erika??...
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America's Third War: As Drug Cartels Continue Stronghold, Female Mexican Police Chief Taken Near Christmas Still Missing
February 09, 2011 | The police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico was kidnapped two days before Christmas and has not been seen since.
Erika Gandara, 28 years old, was a former radio dispatcher for the police department in the town of 9000, which is just across the US border, one mile from Fabens, Texas. The previous police chief was murdered and decapitated; his head was found in an ice chest. Gandara, a single woman with no children, was the only applicant for the job and its salary of $580 per month.

Her first week on the job one policeman was murdered. By the time she became chief the entire force of 8 patrolmen had either been killed or fled. She was the sole law enforcement representative in a Juarez valley town that was part of the war between competing drug cartels for access routes into the US.

Relatives urged Gandara to keep a low profile but she refused, posing with her rifle for newspaper interviews. As many feared, she did not last long. Ten gunmen pulled up to her house on December 23 at 6 am, dragged her out and burned down her house. No word from her since. Many of the houses in Guadalupe have been burned down by the cartels, for whom drug-running is no longer enough.

They want complete political control over towns and territories along access routes to US highways and the lucrative drug market. So while the violence in big cities like Juarez has gotten a lot of media attention, little has been written about small towns like Guadalupe where the situation is even worse.

Read more: America's Third War: As Drug Cartels Continue Stronghold, Female Mexican Police Chief Taken Near Christmas Still Missing - Fox News Latino
 

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