

Wrabbit2000





I simply said Calderon was being watched and tracked by the Cartels. It would have been foolish to ever think he wasn't, and it's a basic move for the Cartel's survival. I just thought it rather interesting that it had come out some time back that he'd had his personal schedules compromised at such a close level.



Brutal murders, beheadings, and assaults on police and the media punctuate news reports from Mexico on a near daily basis — that is, the reports that make it to the U.S. While the common perception is that insecurity is high, official accounts downplay the extent and impact of the violence. Indeed, many media outlets still quote a death toll of 60,000 to 70,000 since the drug war began in 2006. This is both inaccurate and disingenuous. Researcher Molly Molloy suggests that a more realistic estimate is more than 130,000 deaths. As a result, she calls the murder victims who have disappeared from the official government tallies the “Mexican Undead.” In 2012, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported that the Mexican murder rate tripled during Calderón’s term. The government’s response was to stop reporting drug violence statistics.



After all... That's a war by any measure I can possibly imagine. 60,000-70,000 on the low estimate and over 100,000 dead on the high side? Actually..literal wars have been fought with fewer lost in combined totals. Hopefully things improve down there.

edit on 29-10-2013 by Erongaricuaro because: (no reason given)



A much closer level than you think, apparently. Our foreign advisors brought along their own cartel plus had a sweetheart relationship with another one down here. Everything going on from 2007-2012 was compromised at its source. Calderón's complicity in this was giving his OK to let it all happen. He opened the door for the letter agencies to come down here and play their games.That is perhaps correct for the years leading up through 2012. Blame it on the "Mayan Prophesies" or the new administration but 2013 has been much quieter. There has been no news blackout. We still hear about some incidents occurring here and there, but they are becoming increasingly rare. Basically it was a matter of telling our foreign Drug War advisors that playtime is over and it is time to go home.If by chance this year-long lull actually does have everything to do with a news blackout and failing to report statistics then it is working like a champ. Those gangs don't even know to raise ruckus anymore. After 6 years of wild times of shootouts, carnage, violence, and destruction there are bound to be some smoldering cinders here and there but it is now nothing like what we had been seeing in those years. If there is still a war going on then we forgot to tell the soldiers and drug warriors. None of them are showing up for work.The international drug trade got its foothold a few centuries ago in the opium trade with China. New fortunes were made in those days, a new elite sprang up. Those people didn't just decide to quit peddling drugs, they found others to do their legwork for them. Who are the REAL drug Lords these days? Same answer as you get with our ruling elite - they are not the ones you see and hear about in the news - in many cases they are one in the same. They are the ones keeping this black market operating and prices for these otherwise worthless substances astronomically inflated. They stage the war and collect from both sides of it. It is not what it all appears to be. The good guys are the bad guys and the bad guys are cogs in the machine.IT'S A SCAM!Mm'kay?