"US officials said they now believe Mexico faces a longer and bloodier campaign than anticipated and is likely to require more American aid."
Sounds like IRAQ, doesn't it, American sucker?
Related: Why the Drug War Never Ends
North American Union Right Under Your Nose
Drug War Report Feels Familiar
"Mexico urged to change drug war strategy; US-backed plan not working, say political leaders" by William Booth and Steve Fainaru, Washington Post | July 29, 2009
MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon is under growing pressure to overhaul a US-backed antinarcotics strategy that many political leaders and analysts said is failing amid stunning drug cartel assaults against the government.
There are now sustained calls in Mexico for a change in tactics, even from allies within Calderon’s political party, who say the deployment of 45,000 soldiers to fight the cartels is a flawed plan that relies too heavily on the blunt force of the military to stem soaring violence and lawlessness.
“The people of Mexico are losing hope, and it is urgent that Congress, the political parties, and the president reconsider this strategy,’’ said Ramon Galindo, a senator and Calderon supporter who is a former mayor of Ciudad Juarez, a border city where more than 1,100 people have been killed this year.
US officials said they now believe Mexico faces a longer and bloodier campaign than anticipated and is likely to require more American aid. US and Mexican officials increasingly draw comparisons to Colombia, where from 2000 to 2006 the United States spent $6 billion to help neutralize the cartels that once dominated the drug trade. While violence is sharply down in Colombia, cocaine production is up.
So we were being lied to, 'eh?
FLASHBACK:
"Colombia’s coca production drops, UN agency reports" by Associated Press | June 20, 2009
BOGOTÁ - Colombia’s coca crop shrank by nearly a fifth last year while cultivation of the bush that is the basis of cocaine rose for a third straight year in Peru and Bolivia, the world’s two other coca-producing nations, the United Nations said yesterday.
The UN Office of Drugs and Crime said the 18 percent reduction in Colombia, the world’s top cocaine producer, from 2007 owed in part to record manual eradication - as opposed to aerial herbicide spraying - of 371 square miles of the crop.
Uh-huh! Yeah, MINIMIZE the WAR CRIME, U.N.!
Traffickers tend to migrate to countries where there is less police pressure and eradication, the Office of Drug and Crime’s representative for Colombia, Aldo Lale-Demoz, said....
Colombia analyst Adam Isacson, of the Washington-based Center for International Policy, cautioned about “one element that should keep the champagne corks from popping’’ in the Andean nation’s government: Peasants who lost their savings in collapsed pyramid schemes in October began replanting coca.
Oh, so you can THANK Bernie Madoff for the INCREASE in COKE, too, huh?
Readers? Which one is the lie?
Mexico, nearly twice Colombia’s size, faces a more daunting challenge, many officials and analysts said, in part because it is next to the United States, the largest illegal drug market in the world. In addition, at least seven major cartels are able to recruit from Mexico’s swelling ranks of impoverished youth and thousands of disenfranchised soldiers and police officers.
Remember, readers, GOVERNMENT is the BIGGEST DRUG-RUNNER AROUND!!!!
“The question is whether the country can withstand another three years of this, with violence that undermines the credibility of the government,’’ said Carlos Flores, who has studied the drug war extensively for Mexico City’s Center for Investigations and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology. “I’d like to be more optimistic, but what I see is more of the same polarizing and failed strategy.’’
US and Mexican government officials say the military strategy, while difficult, is working.
That's because there is MILITARY CONTRACTOR DOUGH to be MADE!!!
Since Calderon took office in December 2006, authorities have arrested 76,765 suspected drug traffickers at all levels and have extradited 187 cartel members to the United States.
Then WHY has the problem GOTTEN WORSE, huh?
Calderon’s security advisers said they have few options besides the army - as they just begin to vet and retrain the police forces they say will ultimately take over the fight....
See: Mexico's Civil War
Drug-related deaths during the 2 1/2 years of Calderon’s administration passed 12,000 this month.
Please remember that.
Rather than shrinking or growing weaker, the Mexican cartels are using their wealth and increasing power to expand into Central America, cocaine-producing regions of the Andes, and maritime trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific, according to law enforcement authorities.
Time to DECRIMINALIZE and END this FRAUDULENT WAR!!!!
In Mexico, neither high-profile arrests nor mass troop deployments have stopped the cartels from unleashing spectacular acts of violence. This month, the cartel called La Familia launched three days of coordinated attacks in eight cities in the western state of Michoacan. Responding to the arrest of one its leaders, La Familia abducted, tortured, and killed a dozen federal agents; their corpses were found piled up beside a highway....
Just wondering why the report OMITTED the fact that the killers and torturers were POLICE!!!!
It appears drug gangs have infiltrated the military’s intelligence networks....
Or ARE the military intelligence networks!
But Calderon has no intention of changing course, according to senior Mexican officials. In some respects, the government has become more combative. After a La Familia leader called a television station and said the cartel was “open to dialogue,’’ Gomez Mont vowed that the government would never strike a deal with the traffickers.
Especially since THEY ARE the GOVERNMENT!
“We’re waiting for you,’’ he warned La Familia. In the interview, Gomez Mont said that to ease up now would be to sanction criminal behavior and its corrupting influence on Mexican society.
“We know we are right,’’ he said. “Do I have to accept corruption as a way of stabilizing our society? No. I have to act.’’
Only in AmeriKa.
And here is a piece the GLOBE IGNORED (thank you, local):
"Slain Juarez lieutenant was informant" by ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press | Jul 27, 2009
EL PASO, Texas — The eight bullets that leveled Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana outside his home just doors from the city's police chief were fired at close range and left little doubt about their message.
Gonzalez, a Juarez cartel lieutenant shot on his quiet El Paso cul-de-sac this spring, was working for U.S. officials as a confidential informant, sources told The Associated Press, and experts suspect his slaying may be the first time assassins from one of Mexico's violent drug gangs have killed a ranking cartel member on American soil. "
Ah, a "covert action program, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden"
That's why the Globe ignored this.
Experts said the murder represents a growing brazenness of the cartels on this side of the border that will most likely lead to more deaths. "He got shot up close," police chief Greg Allen said. "Whoever did it wanted to make sure it was known that it was for payback."
Mexican drug kingpins, including Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, publicly gave hit men permission this year and last to cross the border in search of targets. "There's an increasing number of (cartel) leaders living in the U.S., probably either to escape law enforcement or their enemies in Mexico, so that's one of the risks that has increased in the last few years," said Stephen Meiners, a senior tactical analyst for Latin America at Stratfor, a global intelligence company based in Austin, Texas. "There's a possibility that this thing could get out of hand," he said.
Translation: They want to militarize and martial law the hemisphere.
Shannon O'Neil, an expert on Latin America at the Council on Foreign Relations, said she knows of no other high-level killings in the U.S., but fears it won't be the last. "We have started to see more brazenness close to the border on the Mexican side and on the U.S. side," O'Neil said. "Once you get these organizations firmly established in Mexico and the United States, you will have killings at all different levels."
Gonzalez, a 37-year-old legal immigrant who lived with his family on a cul-de-sac in an expensive neighborhood, was shot May 15 in front of his spacious home. His wife, Adriana Solis, and the couple's two children fled not long after. Two federal officials and one local official told The Associated Press that Gonzalez was handing over information about cartel activities to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which in recent years has taken a broader role in cross-border drug trafficking investigations.
See: All Quiet on the Drug War Front
The pattern continues, huh?
One of those officials said federal investigators were monitoring Gonzalez's activities and whereabouts.
Oh, STINKOLA!!!!!!!
The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly about the case. In a statement e-mailed to the AP, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said, "It is ICE policy to neither discuss nor comment on issues regarding confidential informants."
Cartel-affiliated hit men have violently, and fatally, disciplined low-level, American-based drug dealers in the U.S. But El Paso police said Gonzalez was a lieutenant in the Juarez cartel, which traffics in marijuana, cocaine and heroin. The cartel was once among the most dangerous in Mexico, but has recently lost some standing because of arrests, deaths and infighting.
El Paso police don't yet have an official motive in Gonzalez's slaying, but chief Allen said detectives are working on the assumption that a cartel colleague discovered he was discussing their illegal activities with federal agents.
Allen, who lives behind Gonzalez's house and heard the shots from his backyard, told the AP that he and other local authorities knew Gonzalez had been involved with drugs in the past but had no idea he was both a ranking Mexican gangster and federal informant. He's angry he wasn't briefed about a case his department now must solve as a local homicide....
And I'M ANGRY the GLOOBE IGNORED this while my bitsburg local did not.
No purchase tomorrow.
Gonzalez is listed in business records as the only contact for El Nuevo Rey ("The New King" in Spanish) freight company, which shares an address with his home. Federal Express packages for the company continued to arrive daily on Gonzalez's front porch for weeks after the shooting. Business records show the company had annual sales of about $84,000. He is also listed as the sole contact at that address for Gonzalez Auto Parts, Letters And Colors Day Care and Transportes Gonzalez. Neighbors said they have seen no evidence of any activity related to these kinds of businesses at the house.
They are what is known as FAKE BUSINESS FRONTS that supply NON-OFFICIAL COVER for GOVERNMENT AGENTS and SPIES!!!!
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Another pattern!
"At least 12 killed in Mexico shootouts" by Associated Press | August 8, 2009
PACHUCA, Mexico - A running battle between police and gunmen has left 12 people dead in this central Mexican city, officials said yesterday....
Officers were acting on a tip that gunmen were in the area when they stopped four trucks carrying the assailants, who opened fire and fled. Officers pursued them, and the two groups exchanged gunfire. After the attacks, police seized assault rifles, grenades, federal police uniforms, handcuffs, and about 7 pounds of cocaine.
This smells like a staged bust.
Elsewhere, gunmen killed a regional police investigator outside his home Thursday night in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, said state police spokesman Arturo Sandoval.
Typical of the AmeriKan MSM: LOOK over HERE while the real stuff happens ELSEWHERE!
Drug violence has killed more than 11,000 people since Mexico launched a national crackdown in 2006. The government says most of the victims have been killed in turf battles with rival cartels fighting for control of lucrative drug routes.
While not technically a lie, they JUST REPORTED ABOVE that the toll has surpassed 12,000!! So, WTF gives, MSM?!!!!!!!!
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So WHAT ELSE are the LYING about and HIDING on us, readers?
Answer: EVERYTHING!
