With 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn't rate in presidential debate

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With 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn't rate in presidential debate

Much of Latin America was dismayed that they got only a glancing mention in Romney and Obama's final presidential debate.
By Sara Miller Llana | Christian Science Monitor – 10/23/2012

That means no candidate talked about the drug trade, despite historic violence playing out in Mexico, much of it along the 2,000-mile border that the US shares.

With 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn't rate in presidential debate - Yahoo! News

Both parties work for the Feds. That's a scandal of the Feds. (D.O.J. committed "Operation Fast and Furious") They dare not touch it.

 

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Neither candidate wants to lose the drug-head vote.

 

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It should have been discussed btw.

 

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Sounds like a good topic for the Mexican presidential debate.

 

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Sounds like a good topic for the Mexican presidential debate.

Fueled by US drug demand.

How do we make America a more moral law-abiding nation?

 

[katsung47]

Sounds like a good topic for the Mexican presidential debate.

It seems to be a good topic for Hillary and Obama on death toll in Libya and Syria. But compare to 60,000 dead in Mexico, It's less. Only none - both politicians and the media has interesting to mention it.

Syrian death toll now tops 30,000: activist group

BEIRUT | Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:15am EDT

(Reuters) - At least 30,000 people have died in Syria's 18-month-old uprising, a British-based Syrian monitoring group said on Wednesday, and more than half of the victims counted were killed in the

Syrian death toll now tops 30,000: activist group | Reuters