Well now… this is just pleasant.
Relatives of 100 missing people want to show photos of their loved ones to a man arrested in Tijuana for allegedly helping a druglord dispose of his slain enemies by dissolving their bodies in acid, a victims’ group said Saturday.
Santiago Meza Lopez, known as the “Pozole Maker” after a local stew, is accused by Mexico’s military of disposing of 300 bodies for Teodoro Garcia Simental, a suspected former lieutenant of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug cartel.
Security is government job #1. Law enforcement is reactive by nature — especially in a liberal democratic society, but something like this — and with no justice in sight — could cause some major trouble for the government. Mexico’s government is already in free fall it seems — the police and military are de facto drug cartel wings in many locales — and its draconian gun laws leaving citizens at the mercy of these drug cartels, it’s no wonder some experts are predicting Mexico’s imminent collapse into full on chaos.
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One of my quibbles for the pro-amnesty crowd has been the way they completely ignore the current problems Mexico is facing. Allowing citizens to flee and send checks back isn’t a way to run an economy or a country.
The country has a booming oil business. Somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of the profit goes directly to the government. Yet folks the poverty rate is rising. So much for socialism.
“Mexico’s government is already in free fall it seems — the police and military are de facto drug cartel wings in many locales — and its draconian gun laws leaving citizens at the mercy of these drug cartels, it’s no wonder some experts are predicting Mexico’s imminent collapse into full on chaos.”
While politicians of both parties refuse to push any sort of reform on the Mexican government.
Lovely title, Floyd.
Taco Bell used to serve them.
My eight point plan that would solve the problem.
1. Hand-pick men who haven’t been touched by corruption.
2. Build facilities to house key government agencies and personnel, so the cartels can;t reach them. Staff with some of your hand-picked people.
3. Take the rest, form them into commando units, send them to train with foreign special operations units.
4. Declare war on drug cartels. Put out a bounty list with major names.
5. Arm commandos to the teeth and send them out to take out targets as they see fit.
6. Call in foreign military assistance in blowing up as much of the cartel’s property as possible.
7. Freeze accounts. Seize assets.
8. Take cartel family members into “protective custody.” Do nothing to harm them. The idea of violence is enough.
David Marcoe,
Good plan. Good plan.
Do to the Mexican cartels what Columbia did to Pablo Escabar.
If Mexico does collapse, it will crossover into our border.
Now that I mostly gag when I watch TV, I’ve been concentrating on HGTV, etc. One program features Americans moving to resort style housing divisions in Mexico (Not just buying a second vacation home, actually moving there).
I see Grenada, Part II, on the horizon.
I just hope Mexico can remain stable for 5 years so they can be handled by a more competent POTUS.
Good plan, David. Unfortunately, the POTUS will probably just make it the 51st state.
Pretty sure they still sell them, Floyd. Not that I’ll be ordering them anymore.
I prefer Cuba become the 51st state, after Castro and the rest of the Commies are booted, of course.
But, if Mexico became part of the U.S., would we divide it into multiple states or make it one?
If we choose the former, how will we divide it?
If we choose the former, how will we divide it?
Mexico is a country with 109 million people and 31 states of its own. If we were to hypothetically annex Mexico, the larger states would likely be admitted, as is, while the smaller states might conglomerate into into larger entities and then be admitted.
David Marcoe,
So we would have the following states: (just a few of the ones we might have)
Baja California
Yucatan
Mexico State/Central Mexico
Chihuaha/Northern Mexico
Oh joy.
I want to buy a condo in Margaritaville then.