Two days on the website but never appearing in my printed paper?
See for yourself: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/2009/09/08/
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/2009/09/09/
That's bad, Glob. I guess us rubes out here are 'too-pid for a reason, huh?
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What a scum-censoring elitist piece of....
"Key figure in Mexico’s war on drug cartels resigns; Departure could signal tactical change" by Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press | September 8, 2009
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon replaced his point man in the drug war yesterday, accepting the resignation of the attorney general whose image was tarnished by charges that his top confidant was on the take.
The departure of Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora constituted the biggest shakeup in Calderon’s offensive against organized crime....
Calderon’s.... all-out war has drawn criticism as more than 13,500 people have been killed in unrelenting drug-related violence since he took office in late 2006, and his party lost ground in midterm elections in July. Some specialists wondered whether the attorney general switch meant the government was considering new approaches....
While the president indicated the war on drug gangs won’t stop, specialists questioned if the government might be considering new approaches after deploying more than 45,000 soldiers and federal police to try to quell criminal activities in Mexico’s drug hotspots. There have been widespread complaints about the bloodshed touched off by the fight.
Jose Luis Pineyro, a drug specialist at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, said the departure of Medina-Mora could indicate some change in the government’s tactics in the drug fight, which have sparked bloody reprisal attacks by cartels. “Perhaps this change in the AG office could be an attempt to change the anticrime strategy and adopt a tactic that a lot of my colleagues have suggested,’’ Pineyro said."
WHAT WOULD THAT BE and WHY has the MSM decided to IGNORE IT, huh?
Mexico should take the next step and fully legalize drugs
Last week, Mexico's government did something that ought to be emulated far and wide -- it stopped worrying about America's draconian preferences on drug policy and decriminalized the personal use of not just marijuana, but a wide variety of officially disfavored intoxicants. In a country ravaged by violence and corruption spawned by drug prohibition, the new policy promises less reason for conflict between people and officials, and fewer opportunities for crooked cops to extract bribes from people enjoying an after-work toke or sniff.
Of course, I didn't read about that in my Boston Globe.
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