foreignpolicy.com - 2/21/2009
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hat I remember most about my return to Mexico last year are the narcomantas . At least that s what everyone called them: drug banners. Perhaps a dozen feet long and several feet high, they were hung in parks and plazas around Monterrey. Their messages were hand-painted in black block letters. ...
abcnews.go.com - 2/25/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
Attorney General Eric Holder issued a blunt warning
today to Mexican drug cartels that he said pose...
a national security threat: "These cartels will be destroyed." The warning came as the attorney general and acting Drug Enforcement Administration ...
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Holder Vows 'Cartels Will Be Destroyed'
johannhari.com - 2/16/2009
dcexaminer.com - 2/20/2009
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dcexaminer.com —
Examiner Editorial Special Report:Card Check co-sponsors favor secret
ballot for Mexico, but not for U.S. workers By...
Kevin Mooney Editorial Staff Writer | 2/20/09 5:44 AM Democrats leading the charge in 2009 for legislation that critics say will ...
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South of the Border: State of War in Mexico
Firedoglake —
Via Laura Rozen comes reference to a chilling piece by Sam Quinones in Foreign Policy on the drug smuggling violence that has escalated to a total state of war rivaling levels in Iraq.
There are so many hot spots for attention these days - Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gitmo, ...
How the Drug War is Ruining Mexico
Hit & Run —
From the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, Sam Quinones lays out some of the dire and growing consequences in hideous violence and corruption in Mexico of the U.S. (and, alas, international) war on some drugs--and how those consequences are now crossing the border to Phoenix. Alas, unlike the Latin American leaders in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Quinones doesn't even think to mention drug law reform as a possible solution.
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Obama Stimulating The Economy By Ticking Off Our Trade Partners
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Mexico Retaliates
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Mexican Drug Violence Spills Over Into US
huffingtonpost.com 2/11/2009 — Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States.
U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico's murderous cartels. And to ...
Mexico is not a Failed State
michaelyon-online.com 4/3/2009 — 03 April 2009 Update U.S. Sen. John Kerry: Mexico is not a failed state ALICIA A. CALDWELL / Associated Press Writer EL PASO, Texas - Mexico's government is being tested in its battle with powerful drug cartels but is not on the brink of being a ...
Barack Obama way wrong on U.S. guns in Mexico: FactCheck.org
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/18/2009 —
On his recently-concluded first visit to Mexico, a week after telling Europeans that his country was at times arrogant, President Barack Obama blamed his own country for providing 90% of Mexico's recovered crime guns. According to a report by ...
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