Can you tell me where this map comes from? Thanks!
- c

My family and I are from Mexico. We were forced to move back after things got very bad in July. That said in the old days Mexico’s PRI party controlled the drug running organisations only occasionally giving the US a sacraficial lamb to appease them. That worked because Mexico’s system is a system that works on corruption. It kept the drug runners from battleing as they would only kill rivals usually quietly. The problem is that the PAN government is trying to create a more centralised, authoritarian and socialist government. Something not reported also is the killings by the Mexican army of innocent civilians and reporters that question them. Americans will do drugs the sooner the PRI gets back in control and makes a deal with the cartels the sooner life will get back to normal down there and don’t worry Americans are going to get high anyway.

I live in Arizona and I wasn’t aware that we had been hit so hard by narcotrafficking violence. Can you provide some evidence to support that assertion?

-exits

This is exactly why I laid out the case, in a recent Diary, that we need to be fighting this terrorism in our own backyard. It’s great to kill the terrorists halfway around the world, but right now all our focus should be on Mexico, becuase the terrorists are taking over our neighbors and we aren’t doing anything to stop it. We must immediately send our troops in there and destroy the narco-terrorists, both for our own sake as well as for the people of Mexico. It is simply insane to sit back and watch as these terrorists kidnap and kill our own citizens, and take over more and more of one of our own neighboring countries, while we simultaneously continue to fight two wars halfway around the world on the grounds that one day those terrorists might come over here. Of course they might come over here, and its great that we’re killing them over there, but right now we’ve got terrorists who ARE over here, and we’re doing nothing about them, this is simply madness.

Clearly Obama isn’t going to exercise the leadership that America, and Mexico, desperately needs. We need someone in the House or the Senate to introduce a Declaration of War on these evil narco-terrorists, in an effort to get the President to do what he should’ve done a long time ago, send our troops in there and wipe these monsters out once and for all. I also call upon all our 2012 Hopefuls to weigh in as well, especially Governor Palin, as the more our potential nominees call for this action, the more pressure it will put on Congress and the White House to finally act.

until we get Mexico at least on the road to being fixed. It’s broken, and we are the obvious place to flee.

The longer we’ve neglected the problem, the worse it has become, and it is not going to get better on its own.

They can’t win this fight. There is no way. As sad as it is the Mexican government needs to stop this fight. And they need to start doing those secret deals with the Cartels again.

On another note here are some things that could begin the process of fixing the massive problems that exist in Mexican cartels.

1. Free Trade Zones: Free trade zones are areas that have 0 tariffs, 0 quota’s, 0 taxes, 0 duties, etc. for goods produced within the boundary and then exported internationally. Free Trade Zones were key to China’s success, but if you develop several large free trade zone areas near coastal ports then the presence of a businesses in those areas will drive the cartels out of those areas, and the surrounding areas.

2. Create pharmaceutical drug exchange in the south. Many illegal drugs are used in the creation of particular pharmaceutical drugs. If you create a legal process for drugs in the south of Mexico to legally pass to pharmaceuticals then those growers will flip to from illegal cartels to legitimate corporations.

3. End the fighting, but declaring no cartel area’s and directing large amounts of federali’s to those particular locations. Particularly around the cities. Currently it is very wrong that while the government is pursuing a dumb unwinnable drug war, what protects me is domestic mafia when I visit Acapulco and Puerta Vallarta. The local business owners pay a local mafia group to protect Americans visiting their cities. Basically if I get robbed while vacationing in one of those cities, and the local “mafia” finds out who did it, they will execute the thief because if American’s feel unsafe in their cities local businessman are in big trouble.