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The escalating drug war in Mexico has now made America’s southern neighbor a more dangerous place than Iraq, according to Strategy Page, a military affairs Web site.
“This month, about 26 people a day are dying from criminal and terrorist violence a day in Iraq.
Newsmax.com - Report: Mexico More Dangerous Than Iraq (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/iraq_mexico/2008/12/15/162059.html - broken link)
The escalating drug war in Mexico has now made America’s southern neighbor a more dangerous place than Iraq, according to Strategy Page, a military affairs Web site.
“This month, about 26 people a day are dying from criminal and terrorist violence a day in Iraq.
Newsmax.com - Report: Mexico More Dangerous Than Iraq (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/iraq_mexico/2008/12/15/162059.html - broken link)
I wonder what will happen to our kidnapping expert.
That is just in north Mexico and their is alot going on at their southern border.From what I have read and heard from Friends that are from Mexico and have relative there;it could get to be another Columbia.Massive corruption also they say.
The extremely violent narcotics culture has made its way into the US. It is terrifying to realize that LA and the Southwest will turn into Miami of the 80s with an all out street drug war with public assasinations and the like.
The extremely violent narcotics culture has made its way into the US. It is terrifying to realize that LA and the Southwest will turn into Miami of the 80s with an all out street drug war with public assasinations and the like.
Where I live I can watch Ciudad Juarez television news. You can see just by the looks on their faces that it's getting dire. Every day there's a large number of bodies and shoot outs. They seem to have no reprieve.
It's irresponsible to say that it's ALL of Mexico. I wasn't dodging bullets when I walked to school in Oaxaca, saw the tourist sites in San Cristobal, went to the beach in Puerto Escondido, or visited friends in Mexico City. I felt safer in downtown Mexico City than I ever do walking around Atlanta- and their metro was the cleanest I'd ever been in.
Not that life in Mexico is peaches and cream, but the narcotics violence is largely focused on the borderlands with some scattered around the rest of Northern Mexico. And the violence on the Southern border is no different than the immigration scuffles on our own Southern border.
It's irresponsible to say that it's ALL of Mexico. I wasn't dodging bullets when I walked to school in Oaxaca, saw the tourist sites in San Cristobal, went to the beach in Puerto Escondido, or visited friends in Mexico City. I felt safer in downtown Mexico City than I ever do walking around Atlanta- and their metro was the cleanest I'd ever been in.
Not that life in Mexico is peaches and cream, but the narcotics violence is largely focused on the borderlands with some scattered around the rest of Northern Mexico. And the violence on the Southern border is no different than the immigration scuffles on our own Southern border.
Well...... not exactly.... if you consider the 17 left dead the other day in Huehuetenango, there aren't any immigration scuffles on the USA border like that. I think you'd have to admit that wasn't like anything seen on our southern border.
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