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Mexican troops have rounded up 10 mayors and a string of police chiefs suspected of links to drug gangs in a western state, one of the biggest single corruption sweeps in the government’s drug war.
Soldiers burst into police stations and town halls to arrest 27 public officials in Michoacan, the home state of President Felipe Calderon and the place he launched his army-led assault on drug cartels in late 2006.
The officials included a judge and a former police chief who is an aide to the state governor. The attorney general’s office said all were suspected of links to drug smugglers…
Small towns in marijuana-growing Michoacan are under siege from rival cartels who want control of rural outposts along smuggling corridors, stretching the army in sparsely inhabited mountains that hide drug plantations and laboratories.
Local officials and police are often bribed or terrorized into helping the well-armed gangs that move billions of dollars of narcotics into the United States every year.
The town of Uruapan, where the mayor was arrested on Tuesday, made headlines early in the drug war in 2006 when hitmen dumped five human heads on the dance floor of a bar.
I wonder how many nutballs would volunteer to invade Mexico?
It is not quite that simple. These people were more than likely given an offer they couldn’t refuse. They can either help, or they and their families will be killed.
This corruption is a symptom of the deeper problem, not the problem. Their replacements will be given the same offer, and will have no choice but to also corrupt themselves.
Until someone down there has the guts and power to knock the drug lords out, this will continue.
“I can smoke anything, man. I smoked that Michoacan, Acapulco Gold, I even smoked that tied stick.”
“Tied stick?”
“Yeah. You know, that stuff that’s tied to a stick.”
“Yeah. You know, that stuff that’s tied to a stick.”
Potsicle?
J/P=?
#1 The only way to knock the drug lords out is to legalize. Without that, you knock the drugs lords out and others will replace them twice as fast.
lol…. Just imagine how many gov officials
they would arrest if they did that on the
U.S. side…
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I would like to know which drugs earn the most money for those cartels, and then – in an ideal world – have our government produce and distribute them as part of a drug rehabilitation program.
Get the crackheads off crack, the coke heads off coke, etc. while simultaneously undermining the cartels revenue stream.
Never will happen. I guess it’s better to let Mexico solve it’s own problems? HAR!!
This is terrifying.
Mexico is the biggest issue in our hemisphere and needs to be resolved. With Obama’s help, finally something is being done about what’s closer to home.