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sou'wester
this is a weird and creepy tale:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/mayor-mauricio-fernandez-saldana-mexico
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/mayor-mauricio-fernandez-saldana-mexico
Couldn't see a thread on this - total madness. That atrocity with 15 headless corpses dumped on the sidewalk in Acapulco last weekend (?) was craziness, but par for the course these days. And reports of Guatemala declaring a state of emergency because of incursions southwards by the drugs gangs have been mental.
What I find mad and intriguing is that this has happened in a country as populous and close to the US as Mexico.
ah, it's just called 'Mexico'! I'm overtired and listening to Elephant Man's Badman Holiday, both of which I hold responsible for my disorientedness.
What I find mad and intriguing is that this has happened in a country as populous and close to the US as Mexico.
ah, it's just called 'Mexico'! I'm overtired and listening to Elephant Man's Badman Holiday, both of which I hold responsible for my disorientedness.
The US has a multi billion dollar training/aid program going on down there... b2b sealing up the border bit by bit. The violence has begun spilling over into the border towns of the states for a while though.
the main issue, really, is that treating drugs and their use as a military/security rather than a social problem has been a failure on pretty much every level. .
Just read Micha Glenny's McMafia which is great about this* if you haven't checked it already, well recommended
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/apr/06/society
*drugs and crime worldwide not just in Mexico
merged those threads for you sir, not much i can do about elephant man i'm afraid...
Much obliged. Could you petition him to make a song about Hogmanay? That would be great.
Micha Glenny - that's the same guy who wrote a great book about the break-up of Yugoslavia, right? If so, will def get my hands on a copy of his one about Mexico (and the rest of the wrold).
Who's hoping the Zetas dispatch an elite task force to the UK to behead Clarkson?