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| Claudia Sheinbaum (CNN photo) |
From the editor: While I'm not close to being an expert on Mexico, I'm fascinated by "Borderland Beat," an online website that chronicles the politics, cartel activity and arrests, along with military and police efforts.
The articles are obviously translated into Spanish from English, penned by reporters using code names as, over the years, many have been murdered once identities were revealed.
The comment published below, one of 165 comments in an article about Mexico's newly-elected female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, purports to be from a resident of Tamaulipas responding to another commenter.
The observations may or not be accurate, but may generate responses from those who agree or disagree:
"For all your studying, you don’t understand the dynamics here. I guess you have to live here.
Mexico IS a failed state; the US just won’t say it because they are trade partners.
There is no rule of law here and high levels of insecurity in most of the country. There is no traditional law enforcement activity here - at all.
There is impunity for most crimes. DTO money is inextricably embedded in the economy and corruption at all levels of government and law enforcement are the norm, not the exception.
Mexicans fear the army and do not see them as some comforting presence. I’ve lived in TAMPS now for 3 years.
There’s not a single American city that has shit on what happens here. The minute someone compares murders and such they reveal their ignorance - in the US they still actually try to solve crimes and prosecute criminals.
The dynamics are completely night and day. It’s a failed state and there’s not a president who can change it. It will take a revolution.
And it’s not as simplistic as “drugs.” It’s the control and theft from municipalities, it’s the extortion from small to large businesses, it’s the fuel theft, it’s the endemic money laundering - “it” has it’s tentacles completely embedded throughout.
And the biggest myth of all? That if you’re not involved with criminal activity the average citizen has nothing to worry about. LOLOLOLOL - a passage right from the government handbook of lies, along with the utter denial of violence and distortion of statistics.
A country where the most reliable source of information about crime comes from social media, not reporters, is an imprisoned society and a failed state."
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Mexico is a strong country. It has weak politicians, weak leaders. Also, the masses want what the upper class has: air condition, phones, cars, clean water, good salaries etc Mexico belongs to the youth: give them opportunities to have good jobs and earn good money and they will stay away from cartels, mafia, etc Mexico was conquered by Spain and the Spaniards established a failed system. Mexico survives thanks to the population growth. When Mexican women stop having babies, weddings, fiestas and going to church, then Mexico will collapse. Mexico is strong because of its women. The women fall in love with weak men. The weak men, kill the strong women in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteLebanon, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone etc go from collapse, failed, recovery. Mexico has an inner force that can not be destroyed: the mixture of races: Spaniards, Aztecs and Mayas. The Mexican conquers the world. Also we have El Santo, el Super Barrio and the Virgin of Guadalupe that gives us the strength and the force to survive to infinity and beyond. Tortillas, chile, nopales, frijoles.... also help overcome failure. Mexicans survive with little but have big dreams to one day eat meat. Stay hungry Mexico.
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