Truth or BS ?

Are narco shootouts common in your neighborhood? Because even here in lawless Guerrero they aren't common in my neighborhood. And we have no doubt where the underlying problem begins.

For the last six months they have been common in your neighborhood! And whatever the underlying problem may or may not be, the big problem is the lack of response locally. And you know it. You post about it on FB but here, no. I think this is the thread you should get going because bullets will get more response than dogs.

A webmaster living in Mexico is not going to have any impact on American policy on drugs, election fraud, Everglades erosion, greenhouse gases, or war criminals like bush and Cheney. What you do have a great voice on is what happens in your neck of the woods. Possibly, single it down to one cause at a time where you might have an impact. Your derogatory tone towards the US offends me for one and I really don't think I'm alone.

Let'ts let innocent old people be killed by under trained young people that have low intelligence and big egos
I can hear the sucking sound as your local real estate marke and economy disappear. Into the void of bad logic.

So how does spilling more blood change that? That was Calderón's erroneous assumption, too.

Bertha,but your sand is BLACK.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a very young person, I haven't lived long as you (though, I wish I will)

You come to my country to enjoy our paradises for which I am thankful, Although, honestly I wish I wouldn't have to, I wish we Mexicans were able to afford a trip)

As I said before, I haven't lived enough and I know very few things but I analyze them deeply. Maybe I'm wrong, only time, experience and wiser and older people will change that onto me.

You say we Mexicans are killing each other and no other country must be blamed on that, I wish you were right, I really do but if you haven't notice this is a globalized world, a slightest detail affects other countries for good or bad.
Your grandchildren are the reason why Mexican farmers farm poppy in the mountains, yes, those green mountains you see towards the north from El Mirador. I lived there for a year and I saw them. This is real, it affects yours and mines. But how could the Great America could be blamed on that? They're letting this things to happen, Why the most powerful country still let drugs get into the US?

I also know my people are lazy, they want to live in a Socialist System, they want their government to do this, and that and supply everything. We have lands to farm but nobody works, we have rivers and seas to fish but they prefer to cross a f***ing border to make easy money whithout paying taxes, blaming their government for their miserable lives.

I know you are able to afford for plane tickets, travel across the world, eat fancy food and wear luxury clothes and I'm happy (and jelous I have to admit it) but you did'n stole those things, you had to work and you were well payed because you were high educated, and you went to a good college or university because of your parents and they had the chance to send you to school because you're country always have had schools and infraestructure but why? Why is the United States of America rich?

Maybe because they took the very best advantages from post-WWII, your daddies died on those horrible events and Mexico only sent a ridiculous squad called Aztec Eagles and sent some farmers to the farms. After that, they wanted to keep working in the States? and these farmers got used to living there that even don't mind to cross that border again and again illegaly no matter what, event after being treated as garbage.
They feel proud and reply when a blond doll-face man calls them criminals. We have real criminals inside the country but none sais a thing.

I still think there is some kind of corporation which makes sure that only World Wars participant countries succeed and rules the world, I think they call it... how was it? Oh yeah NATO or maybe UNO.
I mean the USA, Canada, EUROPE (Spain, Grece and some others who didn't participate are a mess), Japan and Australia are the richest. Now there's something called ISIS who only attacks (can you guess why?) the US and Europe? Those who keep war over their heads.

But what does this have to do with some scared US citizens? Well, where do cartels get their guns? As I remember there was a strategy called Fast N Furious and one of those rifles ended up in Chapo Guzman hands, what about Iniciativa Mérida? just a stage play? US or DEA doesn't really help, they have all that power to find drug lords and make them fall but don't want to. But when it comes to a US citizen killed by narco in Michoacan, they found "hasta al sobrino del cuñado del que lo mató"

I'm granted scholarship to master English in the US on November, apart from that, I don't want anything from Mexico's government, I'll work hard so that my childs won't have to depend on charity to study at a good college.

I agree with Sr. Robert, we can't stop violence using violence, we are not fighting against others, it doesn't work like that. You just hear and watch the news. I don't want to have to stay home to not get shot, I can still go to college and work, I want to keep living that. There's other ways to end this war and violence. Will you still buy some alcohol for fun time to the same person who stole it and killed to make it come to you or you'll buy it at a store? But that doesn't happen does it? Because alcohol is legal, bad for health but still remains legal.

Now this seems like a tale to me. Doesn't it? Don't know where this shit came from haha but that's what I think and now I have to grow up, and teach as many people as I can that they need to work in order to have something. I believe I been doing that until now. Although we can never reject any help.

(I apologize if my English is not clear, I still study the thing)

The truth in this case is narcos killing innocents who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is harder to shrug off.

There needs to be retenes (checkpoints by the Mexican federal navy) all over the place and also on the highway. That should slow down these shootings. The local people here know who are the narcos -- they grew up here.

While I agree retenes would help, I disagree that the people here know who the narcos are. These are punks from other territories, looking to fill the void left by the recent arrest of a local capo. The "war on drugs" is an ideal war for certain interests because it never ends. Cut off one head and 5 more ruthless heads appear in its place. There is simply too much money involved.

If the problem is US drug policy please explain why there are not thousands of Canadien narcos slaughtering people and taking over cities in Canada just like in Mexico.

I shouldn't have to even explain this to you, Diane. It's contemporary history and simple geography.

Remember Colombia? That's where most of the really rich and powerful narcos were until the US government, especially one of its agencies that shouldn't even exist, the DEA, decided to literally hand control of the entire narco business to the Mexicans. Pot and psilocybin and mescaline had always made a little money for enterprising Mexicans up through the 70's and 80's, but smuggling coke, heroin and meth quickly became one of the most lucrative enterprises, and as the demand for heroin grew in the USA the next thing Mexico knew it was a major poppy grower. While I know meth production IS a problem in both Canada and the USA, the Chinese who supply the chemical precursors seem much more disposed to deal with Mexico's cartels who in addition to making cash purchases more recently have been trading minerals, ore and lumber for meth precursors. And voilà, you have a new billion-dollar business and organizations fighting for control of it.

But please don't pretend there isn't gang violence in Canada or the USA. There's plenty of it as well as armed psychocretins, terrorists and even other countries pointing nuclear weapons at you. I really don't miss that feeling here in Zihuatanejo!

Wow Diane! What part of Canada r u from?!?! You hear about it all the time all across Canada & especially here in BC, & not just the lower mainland.

If the problem is US drug policy please explain why there are not thousands of Canadien narcos slaughtering people and taking over cities in Canada just like in Mexico.

On average , there is someone slaughtered once a week in Surrey BC due to drug violence Diane.
...JB

I have an apartment in Zihuatanejo and have my airfare booked for another six month stay.

Sure hope this beautiful town with its lovely people will get the needed attention it so deserves. Hate to think it may be my last vist.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that, unless a Mexican is Mexican Indian, he/she would be considered Latino, i.e. of Spanish descent.

A Mexican Indian is someone of Mexican ancestry who lives in India.

I agree the only way to stop the insanity is to decriminalize all drugs. Slap a tax on them, paste a warning on them, and, like alcohol, let people have at it with eyes wide open. And when, inevitably, some people become addicted and ruin their lives, use the taxes for the programs that will get them clean. There will always be demand, especially with each new generation, so making their drug of choice illegal will not make it go away, and the misery caused by the narcos goes on and on.

But just say, for one crazy minute, all agreed, including various governments. How would it work? How do you set up the newly legalized organizations, the production facilities, the distribution channels, the purchasing outlets? And how do the narcos get a piece of that action? If it all falls under the purview of government, what's the incentive for the narcos to hand it over?