Viva Mexico! Viva Mexico!

[get_involved]

"Leal was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1994 torturous murder of a 16-year-old San Antonio girl."

"Following his execution, Leal’s family in Guadalupe, Mexico, burned an American flag."

Illegal alien has unusual message before being executed Thursday night - National Immigration Reform | Examiner.com

 

[idb]

Fuck off!!!
They're a grieving family!

You might decide that they have less right to grieve than the poor girl's family but that's all they are.

 

[California Girl]

There's already a thread on this.

 

[Douger]

Fuck off!!!
They're a grieving family!

You might decide that they have less right to grieve than the poor girl's family but that's all they are.

Bro. You´re a Kiwi. These assholes are murkins. You only THINK you understand murkins. Go visit the shithole and you´ll quickly understand.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Bro. You´re a Kiwi. These assholes are murkins. You only THINK you understand murkins. Go visit the shithole and you´ll quickly understand.

fuck off you little fat hairy ball of shit......you know nothing of us....but we know about you.....how you ran like the little pussy you are.......still picking up shit after the horses go by?..........

 

[waltky]

Highlights of last eight years of Mexico's drug war...

A look at notable dates in Mexico's decade-old drug war
Dec 10,`16) -- Dec. 11, 2006: Then-President Felipe Calderon orders almost 7,000 soldiers to his home state of Michoacan to fight drug cartels.

June 30, 2008: U.S. announces $1.6 billion in anti-drug aid for Mexico under the Merida Initiative.

Jan. 31, 2008: A gang bursts into a party and kills 16 young people in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. The victims' relatives yell at Calderon.

Aug. 23, 2010: The bodies of 72 migrants killed by the Zetas drug gang are found in San Fernando, Tamaulipas state.

May 5, 2011: An organized victims' movement is born with the start of the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity.

Soldiers salute Mexico's Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos at the Number 1 military camp in Mexico City. Cienfuegos noted the army’s presence in Mexico’s drug war was supposed to be temporary, while new, reliable police forces were built. Ten years later, that hasn’t happened.​

Aug. 25, 2011: Zetas gunmen set fire to the Casino Royale in Monterrey, killing 52 people.

May 13, 2012: The mutilated bodies of 49 people are dumped on a northern highway.

Feb 24, 2013: The first of the "self-defense" vigilante forces takes up arms against the cartels in Michoacan.

Feb. 22, 2014: Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman of the Sinaloa cartel is arrested. He escapes from prison the following year, and is recaptured in early 2016.

June 30, 2014: Mexican soldiers kill 22 suspects at a warehouse in Tlatlaya, Mexico State. News media later present evidence that most were executed after being captured.

Sept. 26, 2014: In the city of Iguala, Guerrero state, 43 students disappear after corrupt police detain and turn them over to a drug gang.

December 2016: Homicide rates, which had fallen, return to levels near those of 2012.

News from The Associated Press

 

[waltky]

Mexico homicides hit an all time high...

Mexico Homicides Hit Record Level in 2017, Data Show
December 23, 2017 — Mexico has this year registered its highest homicide total since modern record-keeping began, according to official data, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto's pledge to get gang violence under control with presidential elections due in 2018.

A total of 23,101 homicide investigations were opened in the first 11 months of this year, surpassing the 22,409 registered in all of 2011, figures published on Friday night by the Interior Ministry showed. The figures go back to 1997. Pena Nieto took office in December 2012 pledging to tame the violence that escalated under his predecessor, Felipe Calderon. He managed to reduce the homicide tally during the first two years of his term, but since then it has risen steadily. At 18.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, the 2017 Mexican homicide rate is still lower than it was in 2011, when it reached almost 19.4 per 100,000, the data showed. The rate has also held below levels reported in several other Latin American countries.

Protesters chant "Justice!" as they carry images of slain journalist Javier Valdez during a demonstration outside the Interior Ministry in Mexico City, May 16, 2017. Valdez, a veteran reporter who specialized in covering drug trafficking and organized crime, was slain in Sinaloa state. He was another victim in a wave of journalist killings in one of the world's most dangerous countries for media workers.​

According to U.N. figures used in the World Bank's online database, Brazil and Colombia each had a homicide rate of 27 per 100,000, Venezuela 57, Honduras 64 and El Salvador 109 in 2015, the last year for which data are available. The U.S. rate was 5 per 100,000. Still, Pena Nieto's failure to contain the killings has damaged his credibility and hurt his centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which faces an uphill struggle to hold on to power in the July 2018 presidential election.

Amnesty for gangs

The current front-runner in the race, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has floated exploring an amnesty with criminal gangs to reduce the violence, without fleshing out the idea. Mexican newspaper Reforma said Saturday that after a campaign stop in the central state of Hidalgo on Friday, Lopez Obrador again addressed the issue when asked whether talks aimed at stopping the violence could include criminal gangs. "There can be dialogue with everyone. There needs to be dialogue and there needs to be a push to end the war and guarantee peace. Things can't go on as before," Reforma quoted Lopez Obrador as saying.

Such a strategy harbors risks for the former Mexico City mayor. A poll this month showed that two-thirds of Mexicans reject offering an amnesty to members of criminal gangs in a bid to curb violence, with less than a quarter in favor. Pena Nieto is barred by law from seeking re-election.

Mexico Homicides Hit Record Level in 2017, Data Show

 

[Silhouette]

Well it all went to hell when the US-legal-pot took away a mainstay of their economy. Black markets shifting to heroin can get so rocky in transition...