DRUG MONEY MORE IMPORTANT THAN HUMAN LIFE IN MEXICO

 

Life is cheap in Mexico, at least Mexican National and migrant life, with the lives of over 100,000 Mexican citizens and migrants unaccounted for over the last several years.

When relatives of these victims seek answers from Mexican government and law enforcement officials, all they get is an arrogant shrug of the shoulders. 

Now, should the victims be Americans, as in the recent attack on four U.S. citizens, allegedly venturing into Matamoros for cosmetic surgery, that gets, not only the attention of the Mexican government, but even the cooperation of the Gulf Cartel, who quickly turned over five men they claimed were responsible for the attack.

Of course, the ruthless, predatorial cartels, Gulf Cartel included, have no natural affection for Americans, just for the American dollars generated by the drug trade.  

The loud right wing of the current Republican Party in the U.S. has called for U.S. troops to be deployed into Mexico to root out the cartel drug pushers.

That's not a new idea, nor is it legal under international law.

Back in 2011, we attended a conference on border security at the UTB/TSC Arts Center.

Tiffany Hartley, on the right, alongside a valley rancher

An attendee to that event was Tiffany Hartley, whose husband, David, had been shot and killed by bullets from across the border as the pair were riding twin jet skis on Falcon Lake.  

At that event, T.J. Bonner, a retired Border Patrol official expressed his own personal view "zero percent of the border is under control."  

He said the cartels have enough money to corrupt every segment of the Mexican government, making it difficult to trust or work with them.(A few years ago we saw a list of Mexican officials, from the President, governors, senators, city officials and police, with the designated stipend given to each of them by the drug cartels, far exceeding their actual salary.)

He stated the obvious, that U.S. troops couldn't be deployed, but hoped that the U.S. could consider air strikes, stating:  

" We know where the cartels are."

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Recently Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, referred to as AMLO by some, expressed his concern that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and others were again threatening the use of U.S. troops to break up the fentanyl exporting industry in Mexico.

"Starting today we are going to start an information campaign for Mexicans who live and work in the United States and for all Hispanics to inform them of what we are doing in Mexico and how this initiative by the Republicans, in addition to being irresponsible, is an offense against the people of Mexico, a lack of respect for our independence, our sovereignty," he said.

"And if they do not change their attitude and think that they are going to use Mexico for their propaganda, electoral, and political purposes, we are going to call for them not to vote for that party, because it is interventionist, inhumane, hypocritical, and corrupt," Lopez Obrador said, later adding that Mexico would be insisting that "not one vote" goes to Republicans from Mexicans and Hispanics.