Mexicans take to streets over drug-violence surge

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Mexicans took to the streets in their hundreds to protest a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime nationwide that claimed at least 45 lives in one weekend.

"No more violence, no more lack of safety, no more corrupt politicians, let's move ahead with citizen candidates," marchers on the touristy Paseo de la Reforma shouted after at least 45 people died in Monterrey and Guadalajara, and the northern state of Chihuahua.

Demonstrators marched to the Senate to unveil an appeal for tougher anti-drug laws.

The attacks were the latest deadly violence gripping Mexico's war on drugs, as the country's various criminal cartels struggle over turf and the government uses police and soldiers in an attempt to crush them.

From late Saturday into Sunday, 15 people were killed in Chihuahua state drug-related bloodletting, prosecutors said. Of the 15, nine people were slain in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's deadliest city across from the US city of El Paso.

Also in Chihuahua state, 11 people were slain in several separate murders in Ciudad Juarez, a day earlier between late Friday and Saturday, authorities said.

And gunmen shot dead five men together in an additional group killing on a highway between Chihuahua city, the state capital, and Ciudad Juarez, police said.

Separately, around 4:00 am (1000 GMT) a special unit of soldiers and police known as the Immediate Reaction Group stopped two suspicious vehicles in a suburb of the industrial city of Monterrey, the Secretariat of Defense said.

The car occupants responded by pulling out weapons and opening fire.

"Seven alleged aggressors lost their lives" in the shootout, the secretariat said in a statement, adding that the attackers "struck the side of a vehicle, resulting in a civilian death."

Monterrey, a prosperous city and home to the local operations of several multinational corporations, is at the intersection of several highways -- often used as drug smuggling routes -- heading north into the United States.

Two rival drug organizations, the Gulf cartel and their former allies, the Zetas, are battling for control of the area.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110214/ts_afp/mexicocrimedrugs
 
MEXICO CITY -- State attorney general's office spokesman Arturo Sandoval said a total of 53 people have been killed in a span of 72-hours in Ciudad Juarez. Sandoval said among the casualties were policemen from three separate departments. The killings began on Thursday with 14 people killed. Friday was the most deadliest day, with 20 people killed. On Saturday, a highway policeman was shot 10 times at close range by a driver who confronted the officer after giving him a ticket. Overall, 19 people were killed on Saturday in separate incidents across the city. On Sunday, the Public Security Secretariat said 13 taxi drivers were killed in Acapulco in a spate of violence that started early Friday. It was believed that drug traffickers were responsible for the killings. The security office later reported that four individuals were taken into custody in relation to the killings, and an investigation had been launched. Juarez is known as one of Mexico's most violent cities and the hub of drug cartel violence. The Sinaloa cartel and the Juarez cartel are slugging it out in a turf war in the region for drug-dealing territory and smuggling routes. In light of the killings, Juarez Mayor Hector Murguia is expected to assign a new municipal police chief come Monday.
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.. and this administration stays silent! Right on our own boarder! If it was reported that 53 people died in Egypt, they would have said something... but, not here in our own backyard
 
USA is some how gaining something by letting all this violence happen down there.
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Listen to

Full Metal Jacket Redux

Like 4 minutes into the songs, though dated, explains why there are so many drugs into this country though it discusses another recent age and route of entry. In the modern day scenario- the mexican catels trade drugs for guns- Ar-15s and the like. Great for our arms industry.

We turned next to a former police chief-Mr. McNamara was chief of police in Kansas City, Mo., and San Jose, Calif.-to inquire into the special problems of the war on drugs on the street. Mr. McNamara, who has a doctorate in public administration from Harvard, is the author of four books on policing and is currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

T'S THE money, stupid." After 35 years as a police officer in three of the country's largest cities, that is my message to the righteous politicians who obstinately proclaim that a war on drugs will lead to a drug free America. About $500 worth of heroin or cocaine in a source country will bring in as much as $100,000 on the streets of an American city. All the cops, armies, prisons, and executions in the world cannot impede a market with that kind of tax-free profit margin. It is the illegality that permits the obscene markup, enriching drug traffickers, distributors, dealers, crooked cops, lawyers, judges, politicians, bankers, businessmen.

Naturally, these people are against reform of the drug laws. Drug crooks align themselves with their avowed enemies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, in opposing drug reform. They - are joined by many others with vested economic interests. President Eisenhower warned of a military-industrial complex that would elevate the defense budget unnecessarily. That military-industrial complex pales in comparison to the host of industries catering to our national puritanical hypocrisy-researchers willing to tell the government what it wants to hear, prison builders, correction and parole officers' associations, drug-testing companies, and dubious purveyors of anti-drug education. Mayor Schmoke is correct about the vested interests in the drug war.
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i think the u.s. is d.e.a. is involved too. my belief is that theres alot of moneyexchanging hands..its not mathematically possible that every year they increase the efforts to fight the war on drugs,raise public awareness,tighten border patrols ,icrease security ,survellance and employee the newest mind blowing gadgets to find and catch these smugglers,yet there is record numbers of product getting through,,its just not possible,,government know that the mojority of people want to believe in whats right ..so they play to that belief..in 1980 i knew one person who could get meth , today i could probably find a hook up at the gas station and it will be better product..
 
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