azstarnet.com - 11/21/2008
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As a sign of its commitment to help fight this war, Congress recently approved President Bush's Merida Initiative, a $1.3 billion counterdrug aid package. This three-year program will support U.S. and Mexican law enforcement with advanced technology and structural improvements designed to bring ...
newsweek.com - 11/19/2008
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newsweek.com —
Dorthea, 72, a retired bank teller, lives in
Harlingen, Texas , a city of about 67,000 in...
the heart of the Rio Grande Valley. Like a lot of Texans, she's crossed the border to Mexico a few times to buy cheap medication. But she'd never considered ...
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Crossing to Mexico for Hospitals and Healthcare | ...
washingtontimes.com - 11/27/2008
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washingtontimes.com —
By: collardgreens1 CHAVEZ: Welcome to America 11/27/08 Ms.
Chavez says in effect that the Hispanic population in...
the U.S. is going to continue to grow at a tremendous rate, and we should all accept that growth as a fact of life; and the Hispanic ...
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CHAVEZ: Welcome to America
lefarkins.blogspot.com - 11/24/2008
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lefarkins.blogspot.com —
Some of the comments made to Rob's post
on the devastating effects the U.S. drug war has...
on Mexico and other nations take the view that (simplifying somewhat) yes, "drugs" produce a net negative effect in society, and would continue to be an overall ...
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Are "drugs" "bad?"
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New Report: CIA Lied About Missionary Plane Shot Down Over Peru
Hit & Run —
... interdiction efforts. See the House of Death case, where federal agents looked the other way while one of their Mexican informants participated in a series of brutal and entirely preventable murders. See our pre-September 11 anti-narcotics alliance with the Taliban, or our continued drug interdiction aid to Thailand after the government mass executed thousands of suspected drug offenders, sans trial. My favorite most recent example is an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star by a former DHS counter-narcotics official ...
New Report: CIA Lied About Missionary Plane Shot Down Over Peru
The Agitator —
... interdiction efforts. See the House of Death case, where federal agents looked the other way while one of their Mexican informants participated in a series of brutal and entirely preventable murders. See our pre-September 11 anti-narcotics alliance with the Taliban, or our continued drug interdiction aid to Thailand after the government mass executed thousands of suspected drug offenders, sans trial.
My favorite most recent example is an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star by a former DHS counter-narcotics official ...
23 Seconds of the Mexican Drug War
The Agitator —
Pretty horrifying.
But remember, the more bloodshed and murder of innocents, the more we can be assured we’re winning.
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Obama Wins!!!
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Yes, you read that right. And no, I am not joking.
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